English Dictionary

signature

/ˈsɪɡnətʃə(r)/

noun

A person's name, written by that person, used as identification or to signify approval of accompanying material, such as a legal contract. / An act of signing one's name; an act of producing a signature.

Please sign your name in the signature box.

意味（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.

意味（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.

意味（3）

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

意味（4）

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

意味（5）

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

意味（6）

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

意味（7）

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

意味（8）

(figuratively) A mark or sign of implication.

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

意味（9）

A dish that is characteristic of a particular chef.

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

意味（10）

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

意味（11）

(medicine, obsolete) A 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.

意味（12）

(Internet) 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.