Token
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Microsoft Active Directory
See definition for: access token
Perl
A morpheme in a programming language, the smallest unit of text with semantic significance.
Enterprise Search
The basic textual units that are indexed by enterprise search. Tokens can be the words in a language or other units of text that are appropriate for indexing.
SEO / Search Marketing
A tracer or tag attached by the receiving server to the address (URL) of a page requested by a user. A token lasts only through a continuous series of requests by a user, regardless of the length of the interval between requests. Tokens can be used to count unique users.
Security
Something that the claimant possesses and controls (typically a key or password) used to authenticate the claimants identity.
Biometrics
A physical object that indicates the identity of its owner. For example, a smart card.
Telecommunications
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.