A credit card size or key FAB sized authentication device that a user carries It usually displays numbers that change over time and synchronizes with an authentication server on the network, and it may also use a challenge/response scheme with the server Tokens are based on something you know (a password or PIN) and something you have (an authenticator - the token)
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 basic, grammatically indivisible unit of a language The symbol that describes a token in the grammar is a terminal symbol The input of the Bison parser is a stream of tokens which comes from the lexical analyzer See section Symbols, Terminal and Nonterminal
A livid spot upon the body, indicating, or supposed to indicate, the approach of death
Authentication token: a hardware device that generates a one-time password to authenticate its owner; also sometimes applied to software programs that generate one-time passwords E-mail token: a data item in the header of an encrypted e-mail message that holds an encrypted copy of the secret key used to encrypt the message; usually encrypted with the recipients key so that only the recipient can decrypt it
In certain local-area-network protocols, a group of bits that serves as a symbol of authority, is passed among data stations, and is used to indicate the station that is temporarily in control of the transmission medium
A memorial of friendship; something by which the friendship of another person is to be kept in mind; a memento; a souvenir
an individual instance of a type of symbol; "the word`error' contains three tokens of `r'"
A token is a piece of paper or card that can be exchanged for goods, either in a particular shop or as part of a special offer. Here is the fifth token towards our offer. You need six of these tokens
A special packet that contains data and acts as a messenger or carrier between each computer and device on a ring topology Each computer must wait for the messenger to stop at its node before it can send data over the network
The smallest lexical unit in a program The Java compiler scans the characters in a program, grouping them into tokens The 6 basic kinds of tokens are identifiers, keywords, separators, operators, literals (either type int, double, boolean, char, or String), and comments
An individual user-configurable setting placed in a daemon's configuration file, such as the name of the router interface used for shunning or the username used to log into a remote database
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