signature

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 understo

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.

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

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

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

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

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

A mark or sign of implication.figuratively

• 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 distinguishing feature or product.

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

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

Distinctive, characteristic, indicative of identity.not-comparableusually

• Rabbit in mustard sauce is my signature dish.
• The signature route of the airline is its daily flight between Buenos Aires and Madrid.

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