signature
A person's name, written by that person, used as identification or to signify approval of accompanying material, such as a legal contract.
Other meanings
An act of signing one's name; an act of producing a signature.
The part of a doctor’s prescription containing directions for the patient.
Related words
- countersignature
- immunosignature
- multisignature
- neurosignature
- nonsignature
- presignature
- signatural
- signatureless
- signaturist
- subsignature
- technosignature
- unsignatured
Word history
From Medieval Latin "signātūra".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “signature” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.