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tokenization

tokenization noun: the act or process of tokenizing.

Noun

tokenization (countable and uncountable, plural tokenizations)

  1. The act or process of tokenizing.
    • Last week Wells Fargo, the country’s fourth-largest bank with about $2.3 trillion in assets, said it would offer tokenized deposits to corporate and commercial clients this fall. Not long ago, the announcement would have been written off as yet another blockchain trial balloon. Today, it looks more...2026 August 10, Nina Bambysheva, “$5.5 Trillion Bet: Why Every Major Bank Is Racing To Put Wall Street On The Blockchain”, in Forbes
  2. An instance created by that act or process: something tokenized.
    • This was an unlikely tokenization of the input string.

Forms of tokenization

pluraltokenizations

Origin of tokenization

From token + -ization.

Words formed from tokenization

Questions about tokenization

What does tokenization mean?
Tokenization means the act or process of tokenizing.
What part of speech is tokenization?
Tokenization is a noun.
What is the plural of tokenization?
The plural of tokenization is tokenizations.

Words near tokenization in the dictionary

  1. tokenisms
  2. tokenist
  3. tokenistic
  4. tokenistically
  5. tokenizable
  6. tokenization
  7. tokenizations
  8. tokenize
  9. tokenized
  10. tokenizer
  11. tokenizers

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