"USB token" meaning in English

See USB token in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: USB tokens [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} USB token (plural USB tokens)
  1. (computing) A hardware device serving as a user identity credential that one can connect to a standard computer interface such as a USB jack; often used in addition to or instead of a password. Categories (topical): Computing
    Sense id: en-USB_token-en-noun-dgn1J1Fc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for USB token meaning in English (1.3kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "USB tokens",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "USB token (plural USB tokens)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Computing",
          "orig": "en:Computing",
          "parents": [
            "Technology",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A hardware device serving as a user identity credential that one can connect to a standard computer interface such as a USB jack; often used in addition to or instead of a password."
      ],
      "id": "en-USB_token-en-noun-dgn1J1Fc",
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "hardware",
          "hardware"
        ],
        [
          "device",
          "device"
        ],
        [
          "user",
          "user"
        ],
        [
          "identity",
          "identity"
        ],
        [
          "credential",
          "credential"
        ],
        [
          "USB",
          "USB"
        ],
        [
          "password",
          "password"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing) A hardware device serving as a user identity credential that one can connect to a standard computer interface such as a USB jack; often used in addition to or instead of a password."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "USB token"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "USB tokens",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "USB token (plural USB tokens)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "en:Computing"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A hardware device serving as a user identity credential that one can connect to a standard computer interface such as a USB jack; often used in addition to or instead of a password."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "hardware",
          "hardware"
        ],
        [
          "device",
          "device"
        ],
        [
          "user",
          "user"
        ],
        [
          "identity",
          "identity"
        ],
        [
          "credential",
          "credential"
        ],
        [
          "USB",
          "USB"
        ],
        [
          "password",
          "password"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing) A hardware device serving as a user identity credential that one can connect to a standard computer interface such as a USB jack; often used in addition to or instead of a password."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "USB token"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.