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    SIG
    abbreviation
  • sig.
    sig.
    abbreviation
    signal.
  • Sig.
    Sig.
    abbreviation
    (in prescriptions) write; mark; label: indicating directions to be written on a package or label for the use of the patient.

SIG

1 American  

abbreviation

  1. special-interest group.


sig. 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. signal.

  2. signature.

  3. signor. Also Sig.

  4. signore; signori. Also Sig.


Sig. 3 American  

abbreviation

  1. (in prescriptions) write; mark; label: indicating directions to be written on a package or label for the use of the patient.


Sig. 4 American  

abbreviation

  1. let it be written.


Sig. 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. (in prescriptions) signā

  2. (in prescriptions) signature

  3. signor

  4. signore

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

sig. 2 British  

abbreviation

  1. signature

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of Sig.3

< Latin signā; See signa

Origin of Sig.4

From the Latin word signētur


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She said two guns recovered from the scene - a Glock 10mm pistol and a SIG Sauer P226 - were legally owned.

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026

She was armed, like many people in Montana, and carried a 9mm SIG Sauer in her handbag.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025

SIG Sauer has sold the P320 to hundreds of thousands of civilians and more than a thousand law enforcement outfits across the nation.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2023

Deloitte and Manning admitted two breaches in relation to the audit of supplier rebates - incentives paid to SIG by its suppliers - and cash, the FRC said.

From Reuters ● Dec. 22, 2022

Outdoor life —————— CompuServe's Great Outdoors SIG is for those preferring nature for the computer screen.

From The Online World by Odd De Presno

DISIR, it originally sig. a female, but was afterwards used in the sense of Nymph and Goddess.

From The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Saemund Sigfusson

Part ii begins with fresh pagination and head-title at sig. 3A 1.

From Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge by W. W. Greg

The famous 'comparatiue discourse of our English Poets, with the Greeke, Latine, and Italian Poets' occurs at sig. 2N 7.

From Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge by W. W. Greg

At sig. 2G1 begins 'A Briefe Index, explaining most of the hardest words', preceding the 'History of Judith'.

From Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge by W. W. Greg

The E.E. render this word by Altipes, from bar, high; and brok, lit. breeches, brogues, but which they assume may also sig. a bird's leg.

From The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Saemund Sigfusson

Sir Sig. _thrusts out his head to hearken, hears no body, and advances.

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Montague Summers

Sig. 2K 5 appears in duplicate; the first is presumably intended as a cancel though no alteration is apparent.

From Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge by W. W. Greg

The last leaf of Sig. g is occupied by a series of Advertisements of Works just Published by John Murray.

From A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow by Thomas James Wise

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