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Tokata Iron Eyes

Tokata (Tokatawin) Iron Eyes, later Gibson, is a Hunkpapa and Oglala Lakota Standing Rock Sioux youth climate activist who led the ReZpect Our Water campaign against the Dakota Access Pipeline at age 12 and later worked with Greta Thunberg.

Tokay gecko

The tokay gecko (Gekko gecko) is a large nocturnal, arboreal gecko native to Southeast Asia and southern China, named for its loud "to-kay" territorial call.

Toke Makinwa

Toke Makinwa (Tokunbo Makinwa, born 1984) is a Nigerian radio and TV host, vlogger, author, and entrepreneur known for Rhythm 93.7 FM's Morning Drive, the Toke Moments vlog, the 2016 memoir On Becoming, and her beauty and fragrance brands.

Tokelau

Tokelau: non-self-governing New Zealand territory of three atolls (Atafu, Nukunonu, Fakaofo), UN-listed since 1946, population about 1,500, rotating Ulu-o-Tokelau head, failed 2006 and 2007 free-association referendums.

Tokelauan oral literature

Tokelauan oral literature is the spoken, sung, and narrated tradition of Tokelau's three atolls in gagana Tokelau, covering tales (kakai), historical accounts (tala), and fatele songs.

Token (railway signalling)

In railway signaling, a token is a physical object a train driver must hold before entering a section of single track, ensuring only one train occupies it.

Token bucket

The token bucket is a network algorithm that controls traffic rate by accumulating tokens up to a burst capacity, allowing bursts while enforcing an average limit.

Token bus network

A token bus network is a local area network where stations pass a token to control access, standardized as IEEE 802.4 and used mainly in factory automation.

Token coin

Token coin: a coin-like, privately issued substitute for legal-tender money, usually struck in base metal with a denomination, part of exonumia; historical English, American, casino, and modern digital-token senses.

Token currency of Muhammad bin Tughlaq

The token currency of Muhammad bin Tughlaq (محمد بن تغلق کا ٹوکن کرنسی) was a Delhi Sultanate scheme of brass and copper tokens at par with silver tankas, 1329–1332.

Token dropping

Token dropping is a technique in sparse Mixture-of-Experts training where tokens routed to an expert beyond its fixed capacity skip that expert and pass through unchanged.

Token economy

A token economy is a behavior-modification system in which target behaviors earn tokens, such as chips or points, later exchanged for rewards in psychiatric care, classrooms, and smartphone apps.

Token merging

Token merging (ToMe) is a technique that speeds up transformers by merging similar tokens between layers without retraining, introduced by Meta AI researchers in October 2022.

Token Ring

Token Ring is a local-area network technology developed by IBM and standardized as IEEE 802.5 in 1985, in which stations transmit only when holding a circulating token.

Tokenism

Tokenism is the superficial inclusion of small numbers of marginalized group members to create an appearance of diversity. Rooted in Rosabeth Moss Kanter's 1977 token theory (performance pressures, boundary heightening, role entrapment) and applied to DEI critiques.

Tokenization (data security)

Tokenization is a data security technique that replaces sensitive values, such as payment card numbers, with tokens that carry no exploitable meaning and can be reversed only through a protected vault.

Tokenless block system

The tokenless block system is a railway single-line signaling method in which signals and interlocking, rather than a carried token, authorize a train to enter the block.

Tokhan Sahu

Tokhan Sahu is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who is a Union Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs and represents Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh in the Lok Sabha.

TOKHIT (company)

TOKHIT was a gamified social media app built on blockchain and NFT technology by the Cluj-Napoca, Romania startup TOKHIT APP S.R.L., founded by Andrei Ureche and Cristian Voaides.

Tokhtamysh (توقتمش)

Tokhtamysh (توقتمش), Golden Horde khan (died 1406), reunified the Horde with Timur's aid, sacked Moscow in 1382, then was crushed by Timur at Kondurcha (1391) and Terek (1395) and died in exile.

Tokhtamysh's sack of Moscow

Tokhtamysh's sack of Moscow (Тохтамышево разорение Москвы) was the capture and burning of Moscow by the Golden Horde khan Tokhtamysh on 23–26 August 1382, restoring Moscow's dependence on the Horde.

Toki Pona

Toki Pona (toki pona), a minimalist constructed language created by Canadian linguist Sonja Lang in 2001, has about 120-140 words, isolating SVO grammar, the sitelen pona script, ISO 639-3 code tok, and an active global community.

Tokiko Kato

Tokiko Kato (加藤登紀子), born 1943 in Harbin, is a Japanese singer-songwriter and actress called Japan's first female singer-songwriter, known for 'Shiretoko Ryojo' and for voicing Madame Gina in 'Porco Rosso'.

Tokimeki Memorial (ときめきメモリアル)

Tokimeki Memorial (ときめきメモリアル) is Konami's dating sim series, first released on PC Engine May 27, 1994. Set at Kirameki High, it made stat-raising romance games mainstream in Japan; never officially localized in English.

TOKiMONSTA

TOKiMONSTA is the stage name of Jennifer Lee, a Korean-American producer and DJ from Los Angeles, the first female Asian American Grammy nominee for Best Dance/Electronic Album.

Tokio (software)

Tokio is an asynchronous runtime for the Rust programming language, first released in 2017 and described as the most widely used async runtime in the Rust ecosystem.

Tokio Hotel

Tokio Hotel: German rock band from Magdeburg, formed 2001 by twins Bill and Tom Kaulitz with Georg Listing and Gustav Schäfer (originally Devilish). Breakthrough hit 'Durch den Monsun' (2005); albums Schrei, Zimmer 483, Scream, Humanoid, Kings of Suburbia, Dream Machine, 2001, Encore; over 10 million records sold.

Tokio Marine Holdings

Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc. is a Japanese insurance holding company whose core subsidiary is Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance, one of Japan's major non-life insurers.

Tokio Myers

Tokio Myers, stage name of Torville Jones (born 1984, Kilburn, London), is a British pianist and producer who won Britain's Got Talent 2017 with classical-pop mash-ups; debut album Our Generation reached UK number four.

Tokiwa Zoo

Tokiwa Zoo (ときわ動物園) in Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan; a municipal zoo founded in 1955 as Miyodai Zoo and reopened in 2016 as Japan's first zoo with habitat environmental exhibits across the whole park, centered on primates.