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Noun: signature  sig-nu-chu(r)
  1. Your name written in your own handwriting
     
  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
    - signature tune, theme song
     
  4. A distinctive feature or pattern used to identify or authenticate an object, message, data, etc.
     
  5. A short message or identifying text at the end of an email or other online message
    - sig [informal]
     
  6. (music) the sharps or flats that follow the clef and indicate the key
    - key signature
     
  7. A musical notation indicating the number of beats to a measure and kind of note that takes a beat
    - 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

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

Encyclopedia: Signature, Women in Music