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   signature

   /ˈsɪɡnətʃə/

   noun

   • 1. a person's name written in a distinctive way as a form of identification in authorizing a cheque or document or concluding a letter: "the signature of a senior manager"
   • ▪ the action of signing a document: "the licence was sent to the customer for signature"
   • ▪ a distinctive pattern, product, or characteristic by which someone or something can be identified: "the chef produced the pâté that was his signature"
   • 2. short for key signature or time signature
   • 3. 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.
   • 4. the part of a medical prescription that gives instructions about the use of the medicine or drug prescribed. North American

   Word Origin mid 16th century (as a Scots legal term, denoting a document presented by a writer to the Signet): from medieval Latin signatura ‘sign manual’ (in late Latin denoting a marking on sheep), from Latin signare ‘to sign, mark’.

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