token

noun

1. Something serving as an expression of something else.
2. A keepsake.
3. A piece of stamped metal or plastic, etc., used as a form of currency; a voucher that can be exchanged for goods or services.
4. A small physical object, often designed to give the appearance of a common thing, used to represent a person or character in a board game or other situation.
5. A minor attempt for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement; a formality.
6. A member of a group of people that is included within a larger group to comply with a legal or social requirement.
7. Evidence, proof; a confirming detail; physical trace, mark, footprint.
8. Support for a belief; grounds for an opinion.
9. An extraordinary event serving as evidence of supernatural power.
10. An object or disclosure to attest or authenticate the bearer or an instruction.
11. A seal guaranteeing the quality of an item.
12. Something given or shown as a symbol or guarantee of authority or right; a sign of authenticity, of power, good faith.
13. A tally.
14. A particular thing to which a concept applies.
15. An atomic piece of data, such as a word, for which a meaning may be inferred during parsing.
16. A discrete unit identified and processed during computational analysis of data, especially an individual unit output by a tokenizer.
17. The basic unit of data processed by generative AI models during training and inference, often used as a consumption metric.
18. A conceptual object that can be possessed by a computer, process, etc. in order to regulate a turn-taking system such as a token ring network.
19. A meaningless placeholder used as a substitute for sensitive data.
20. A digital asset that is created and managed on an existing blockchain using a smart contract.