Tokenization is a very common task in NLP, it is basically a task of chopping a character into pieces, called as token, and throwing away the certain characters at the same time, like punctuation.
If I speak in a common term, it is just to split apart the text into the individual units, and each individual unit, should have a value associated with it.
For an example, if you Input like this,
Input: World, Americans, Countrymen, Borrow.
Output:
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