| signature | |
| 1. adj. 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. | |
| 2. n. A person’s name, written by that person, used to signify approval of accompanying material, such as a legal contract. | |
| 3. n. The act of signing one's name. | |
| 4. n. (medicine) The part of a doctor’s prescription containing directions for the patient. | |
| 5. n. (music) Signs on the stave indicating key and tempo, composed of the key signature and the time signature. | |
| 6. n. (printing) A group of four (or a multiple of four) pages printed such that, when folded, they become a section of a book. | |
| 7. n. (computing) A pattern used for matching the identity of a virus, the parameter types of a method, etc. | |
| 8. n. (cryptography) Data attached to a message that guarantees that the message originated from its claimed source. | |
| 9. n. (figurative) A mark or sign of implication. | |
| 10. n. (mathematics) A tuple specifying the sign of coefficients in any diagonal form of a quadratic form. | |
| 11. n. (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; supp | |
