- Something intended or supposed to represent or indicate
another thing or an event; a sign; a symbol; as, the rainbow is a token
of God's covenant established with Noah. - A memorial of friendship; something by which the friendship
of another person is to be kept in mind; a memento; a souvenir. - Something given or shown as a symbol or guarantee of
authority or right; a sign of authenticity, of power, good faith, etc. - A piece of metal intended for currency, and issued by a
private party, usually bearing the name of the issuer, and redeemable
in lawful money. Also, a coin issued by government, esp. when its use
as lawful money is limited and its intrinsic value is much below its
nominal value. - A livid spot upon the body, indicating, or supposed to
indicate, the approach of death. - Ten and a half quires, or, commonly, 250 sheets, of paper
printed on both sides; also, in some cases, the same number of sheets
printed on one side, or half the number printed on both sides. - A piece of metal given beforehand to each person in the
congregation who is permitted to partake of the Lord's Supper. - A bit of leather having a peculiar mark designating a
particular miner. Each hewer sends one of these with each corf or tub
he has hewn. - To betoken.
Meaning of 'token' (Princeton's WordNet)
1 . token
[ n]
Meaning (1): - an individual instance of a type of symbol
Example in sentence:
the word `error' contains three tokens of `r'
2 . token
[ s]
Meaning (2): - insignificantly small; a matter of form only (`tokenish' is informal)
Token economy Token economy is a procedure of behaviour therapy employed in a mental institution where tokens are used as rewards to reinforce desired behaviour. The tokens
Tokenism Tokenism instances in which individuals or groups perform trivial positive actions for people toward whom they feel prejudice, then use these
Token ring A network architecture developed by IBM, which is physically wired as a star but uses token passing in a logical ring topology, is called token ring.
Token talk Token talk is the standard for sending Apple Talk over token ring cabling.
Token Token are used in some ring topology networks to ensure fair communication between all computers.
Token passing A method of passing data around a ring network, is called token passing.