Meaning

A person's name, written by that person, used as identification or to signify approval of accompanying material, such as a legal contract..

Definitions by Sense

1. A person's name, written by that person, used as identification or to signify approval of accompanying material, such as a legal contract.
2. An act of signing one's name; an act of producing a signature.
3. (medicine) The part of a doctor’s prescription containing directions for the patient.
4. (music) Signs on the stave indicating key and tempo, composed of the key signature and the time signature.
5. (printing) A group of four (or a multiple of four) sheets printed such that, when folded, they become a section of a book.
6. (computing) A pattern used for matching the identity of a virus, the parameter types of a method, etc.
7. (cryptography) Data attached to a message that guarantees that the message originated from its claimed source.
8. (figurative) A mark or sign of implication.

Example Sentences

Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language […] his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there. For his signature, however, that was different.

IN COMMENTS during signature of the bill yesterday during “Agriculture Day” at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield, Thompson agreed with farmers that land needs to be protected.

[She ate with herself] during the whole evening, during supper, during her signature of unintelligible papers at her father's desk, when he told her gruffly that she would now have an income of £350 a year minus income tax, which would return to her in some mysterious way […]

the natural and indelible signature of God, which human souls […] are supposed to be stamped with

The TACOM Vehicle Signature Reduction program is concerned with reducing the noise signature detectability of military vehicles in combat.

A “signature” was placed on all things by God to indicate their affinities — but it was hidden, hence the search for arcane knowledge. Knowing was guessing and interpreting, not observing or demonstrating.

A great beginning is the goose-liver terrine with truffles, one of the chef's signatures.

Your signature must not exceed three lines of text, or 600 pixels in height.

Word Forms

• signatures
• more signature
• most signature
• signaturing
• signatured

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