2019-01-20 token n.
- a thing serving as a visible or tangible representation of someting abstract.
- a thing given to or done for someone as an expression of one's feelings.
- a characteristic or distinctive sign or mark, especially a badge or favour worn to indicate allegiance to a particular person or party.
- a sequence of bits used in a certain network architecture in which the ability to transmit information is conferred on a particular node by the arrival there of this sequence,which is passed continuously between nodes in a fixed order.