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TOKENISATION [3 records]

Record 1 2024-01-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Digital Currency
  • Electronic Commerce
DEF

... the process of converting an asset or the ownership rights of an asset to a unique unit called token.

OBS

Tokens are commonly referred to when discussing blockchain technology, where they are used to indicate the ownership of a valuable asset.

Key term(s)
  • tokenisation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Monnaie électronique
  • Commerce électronique
DEF

Processus à travers lequel un actif et ses droits associés sont divisés en fractions, représentées sous la forme numérique d'un jeton, afin d'en assurer le suivi et d'en permettre les échanges […]

Spanish

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Record 2 2023-11-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • IT Security
CONT

To mitigate threats to data privacy, organizations are increasingly relying on data tokenization, a process that involves swapping out sensitive data, such as a customer's social security or bank account number, with a randomly generated data string called a token.

Key term(s)
  • tokenisation
  • data tokenisation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité des TI

Spanish

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Record 3 2020-04-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Processing of Language Data
  • Lexicology, Lexicography, Terminology
  • Applications of Automation
DEF

The dividing of text into lexical units using a computer program.

OBS

Lexical units are usually words, but may also be numbers or special characters.

OBS

word segmentation; segmentation: These designations are mostly used when referring to the tokenization of texts in written languages that have no visible word boundaries in their writing system.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Informatisation des données linguistiques
  • Lexicologie, lexicographie et terminologie
  • Automatisation et applications
OBS

Une unité lexicale peut être un mot, un chiffre ou un caractère spécial.

Spanish

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