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tokenize

US/ˈtoʊ.kən.aɪz/

tokenize verb: to reduce to a token or set of tokens by lexical analysis.

Verb

tokenize (third-person singular simple present tokenizes, present participle tokenizing, simple past and past participle tokenized)

  1. (transitive) To reduce to a token or set of tokens by lexical analysis.
  2. (transitive) To substitute sensitive data with meaningless placeholders.
  3. (transitive) To treat as a token minority.

Forms of tokenize

third-person singular presenttokenizes
present participletokenizing
past participletokenized
pasttokenized
alternative formtokenise

Origin of tokenize

From token + -ize.

Words formed from tokenize

Questions about tokenize

What does tokenize mean?
Tokenize means to reduce to a token or set of tokens by lexical analysis.
What part of speech is tokenize?
Tokenize is a verb.
How do you pronounce tokenize?
Tokenize is pronounced /ˈtoʊ.kən.aɪz/ (US).
What is the past tense of tokenize?
The past tense of tokenize is tokenized.

Words near tokenize in the dictionary

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

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