n.
- a person's name written in a distinctive way as a form of identification or authorization.
▸the action of signing a document.
- a distinctive product, feature, etc. by which someone or something can be identified:
[as modifier]
the chef's signature dish.
- Music short for key signature or time signature.
- Printing a letter or figure printed at the foot of one or more pages of each sheet of a book as a guide in binding.
▸a printed sheet after being folded to form a group of pages.
- N. Amer. the part of a medical prescription that gives instructions about the use of the medicine or drug prescribed.
Etymology
C16: from med. L. signatura ‘sign manual’, from L. signare ‘to sign, mark’.