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- noun computing A
token or shortpacket ofdata passed between communicatingprograms , used to identify a particular event ortransaction ; the data is typically not meaningful to therecipient program and not usually interpreted until the recipient passes the data back to the sender or another program at a later time.
Etymologies
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By analogy with fortune cookie.
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