signature

A person's name, written by that person, used as identification or to signify approval of accompanying material, such as a legal contract.

Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language […] his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there. For his signature, however, that was different.

An act of signing one's name; an act of producing a signature.

IN COMMENTS during signature of the bill yesterday during “Agriculture Day” at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield, Thompson agreed with farmers that land needs to be protected.

[She ate with herself] during the whole evening, during supper, during her signature of unintelligible papers at her father's desk, when he told her gruffly that she would now have an income of £350 a year minus income tax, which would return to her in some mysterious way […]

The part of a doctor’s prescription containing directions for the patient.

Signs on the stave indicating key and tempo, composed of the key signature and the time signature.

A group of four (or a multiple of four) sheets printed such that, when folded, they become a section of a book.

Distinctive, characteristic, indicative of identity.

Rabbit in mustard sauce is my signature dish.

The signature route of the airline is its daily flight between Buenos Aires and Madrid.

To sign with one's signature, to write one's signature on.