signatures

Noun

signature (plural signatures)

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...1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   John Hancock, John Henry

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.1977, Illinois Information Service, Press Summary - Illinois Information Service, page 4287
3. The part of a doctor’s prescription containing directions for the patient.
4. Signs on the stave indicating key and tempo, composed of the key signature and the time signature.
5. A group of four (or a multiple of four) sheets printed such that, when folded, they become a section of a book.
6. A pattern used for matching the identity of a virus, the parameter types of a method, etc.

See all 14 meanings of signature