1. Your name written in your own handwriting
   "She practised her signature before signing the important document"
    
2. A distinguishing style
   "this room needs a woman's signature";
   - touch
    
3. A melody used to identify a performer or a dance band or radio/tv program
   "The signature tune of the news broadcast was instantly recognizable";
   - signature tune, theme song
    
4. A distinctive feature or pattern used to identify or authenticate an object, message, data, etc.
   "The artist's unique brushstroke was his signature"
    
5. A short message or identifying text at the end of an email or other online message
   "He always included a witty quote in his email signature";
   - sig [informal]
    
6. (music) the sharps or flats that follow the clef and indicate the key
   "The key signature of G major has one sharp";
   - key signature
    
7. A musical notation indicating the number of beats to a measure and kind of note that takes a beat
   "4/4 is a common time signature in pop music";
   - time signature, musical time signature
    
8. A sheet with several pages printed on it; it folds to page size and is bound with other signatures to form a book
   "The printer carefully aligned the signatures before binding"

Derived forms: signatures

Type of: air, fashion, line, manner, melodic line, melodic phrase, melody, mode, musical notation, name, piece of paper, sheet, sheet of paper, strain, style, tune, way

Part of: book

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