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{{selfref|For the use of signatures in Wikipedia, see Signatures.}}{{wiktionary|signature|signatory}}A signature is a hand-written, possibly stylized, version of someone's name, which may be used to confirm the person's identity. The writer of a signature is a signatory or signer. Signature or signatory may also refer to: {{tocright}}Businesses and organizations- Signature (charity), trading name of UK-based Council for the Advancement of Communication for Deaf People (CACDP)
- Signature (whisky), a brand of Indian whisky
- Signature, a brand of the clothing company Levi Strauss & Co.
- Signature Books, a publisher of Mormon works
- Signature Digital Menus, a company specializing in the provision of digital menu boards
- Signature Flight Support, a British fixed-base operator
- Signatures Restaurant, a restaurant formerly owned by Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff
- Signature School, a charter school in Evansville, Indiana spanning grades 9–12
- Signature Team, a French motor racing team
- Signature Theatres, a movie theatre chain in California, Hawaii, and Montana operated by Regal Entertainment Group
- Signatory Vintage Scotch Whisky Company, a Scottish company that owns the Edradour distillery
Computing - Signature block, text automatically appended at the bottom of an e-mail message, Usenet article, or forum post
- Method signature, in computer programming, especially object-oriented programming, how a method is commonly identified
- Type signature, which defines the inputs and outputs for a function or method
Cryptography - Blind signature, digital signature in which the content of a message is disguised
- Digital signature (or public-key digital signature), a method for authenticating information
- Digital Signature Algorithm, a United States Federal Government standard
- Electronic signature, a signature imputed to a text via one or more of several electronic means, or cryptographic means to add non-repudiation and message integrity features to a document
- ElGamal signature scheme, based on the difficulty of computing discrete logarithms
- Key signature (cryptography), the result of applying a hash function on a key
- XML Signature, a W3C recommendation that defines an XML syntax
Mathematics - Signature (logic), in mathematical logic
- Signature (permutation), in mathematics
- Signature of a real symmetric bilinear form
- Metric signature of the metric tensor on a pseudo-Riemannian manifold
- Signature (topology) of a 4k-dimensional compact oriented manifold
- Signature of a knot, in knot theory
- Prime signature, the multiset of exponents in the prime factorisation of a number
Music - Key signature, a series of sharp or flat symbols placed on the staff, designating notes that are to be played one semitone higher or lower
- Signature (Moya Brennan album), a 2006 album by Irish musician Moya Brennan
- Signature (Joe album)
- Signature (Patrice Rushen album)
- Signature Records, a mid-20th century United States-based record label
- Signature song, the one song that a popular and well-established artist is identified with
- Time signature, a notational device used to specify how many beats are in each bar and which note value constitutes one beat
Science - Acoustic signature, a combination of acoustic emissions
- Doctrine of signatures, the notion that the appearance of plants is a function of their celestial influences
- Isotopic signature, a characteristic set of ratios of stable or unstable isotopes
- Metric signature, in physics, refers to the form of a metric tensor: the sign of the diagonal components constitutes its "signature"
- Signature change, in relativity
- Radar cross-section
- Spectral signature, the specific combination of reflected and absorbed electromagnetic (EM) radiation at varying wavelengths which can uniquely identify an object
Other uses - Seal (East Asia), with sometimes a short inscription
- Signature (dance group) (born 1979), British Bhangra act in the 2008 series of the television show Britain's Got Talent
- Signature Bridge, over the Yamuna river, Delhi, India
- Signature crime, a crime which exhibits characteristics unique to an offender's psychology
- In bookbinding, an alternative word for Section
- Signature mark, a mark at the bottom of a gathering to assist the bookbinder in collation
- Signature Place, a residential skyscraper located in St. Petersburg, Florida
See also- Doctrine of signatures, in Christian European metaphysics
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