signature
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[edit] Etymology
From French signature, from Latin signatura, future passive periphrastic of verb signare, "to sign", from signum, "sign", + -tura, feminine of -turus, future passive periphrastic suffix.
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signature (plural signatures)
- A person’s autograph name.
- The act of signing one's name.
- (medicine) That part of a doctor’s prescription containing directions for the patient.
- (music) Signs on the stave indicating key and tempo
- (printing) A group of four (or a multiple of four) pages printed such that, when folded, become a section of a book
- (computing) A pattern used for matching the identity of a virus, the parameter types of a method, etc.
- (cryptography) Data attached to a message that guarantees that the message originated from its claimed source.
- (figurative) A mark or sign of implication.
- 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
- 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.
- 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
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person’s autograph name
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signature (comparative more signature, superlative most signature) (unusually not comparable)
- distinctive, characteristic indicative of identity
- 2001, Lawrence J. Vale, Sam Bass Warner, Imaging the city: continuing struggles and new directions
- Consider Las Fallas of Valencia, Spain, arguably the most signature of signature ephemera.
- 2005, Paul Duchscherer, Linda Svendsen, Beyond the bungalow: grand homes in the arts & crafts tradition
- Considered the most signature effect of the Tudor Revival style, half-timbering derived its distinctive ...
- 2005, Brett Dawson, Tales from the 2004-05 Fighting Illini
- But it was perhaps the most signature shot Williams ever made in an Illinois uniform, a bullying basket in which he used his power to pound Stoudamire, ...
- Rabbit in mustard sauce is my signature dish.
- 2005: CBS News website, Paul Winchell Dead At Age 82, read at [1] on 14 May 2006 - The inspiration for Tigger’s signature phrase: TTFN, ta-ta for now.
- The signature route of the airline is its daily flight between Buenos Aires and Madrid.
- 2001, Lawrence J. Vale, Sam Bass Warner, Imaging the city: continuing struggles and new directions
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[edit] Noun
signature f. (plural signatures)
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signātūre
- vocative masculine singular of signātūrus
