signature

noun

1. 1

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

   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.

2. 2

   An act of signing one's name; an act of producing a signature.

   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 […]

3. 3

   The part of a doctor’s prescription containing directions for the patient.

4. 4

   Signs on the stave indicating key and tempo, composed of the key signature and the time signature.

5. 5

   A group of four (or a multiple of four) sheets printed such that, when folded, they become a section of a book.

6. 6

   A pattern used for matching the identity of a virus, the parameter types of a method, etc.

7. 7

   Data attached to a message that guarantees that the message originated from its claimed source.

8. 8

   figurativeA mark or sign of implication.

   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.

9. 9

   A distinguishing feature or product.

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

10. 10

    A tuple specifying the sign of coefficients in any diagonal form of a quadratic form.

11. 11

    obsoleteA resemblance between the external character of a disease and those of some physical agent, for instance, that existing between the red skin of scarlet fever and a red cloth; supposed to indicate this agent in the treatment of the disease.

12. 12

    Text (or images, etc.) appended to a user's emails, newsgroup posts, forum posts, etc. as a way of adding a personal touch or including contact details.

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

    forum signature generator

adjective

1. 1

   Distinctive, characteristic, indicative of identity.

   Rabbit in mustard sauce is my signature dish.

   The signature route of the airline is its daily flight between Buenos Aires and Madrid.

   Consider Las Fallas of Valencia, Spain, arguably the most signature of signature ephemera.

   Considered the most signature effect of the Tudor Revival style, half-timbering derived its distinctive[…].

verb

1. 1

   To sign with one's signature, to write one's signature on.

Forms

plural

signatures

comparative

more signature

superlative

most signature

past tense

signatured

past participle

signatured

present participle

signaturing

third person singular

signatures