Sig.

¹ American  

abbreviation

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

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Sig. ² American  

abbreviation

1. let it be written.

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SIG ³ American  

abbreviation

1. special-interest group.

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sig. ⁴ American  

abbreviation

1. signal.

2. signature.

3. signor. Also Sig.

4. signore; signori. Also Sig.

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Sig. ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. (in prescriptions) signā

2. (in prescriptions) signature

3. signor

4. signore

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sig. ² British  

abbreviation

1. signature

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Etymology

Origin of Sig.¹

< Latin signā; See signa

Origin of Sig.²

From the Latin word signētur

Example Sentences

On a freezing Saturday morning, the 37-year-old ICU nurse at a Veterans Affairs hospital, legally carrying his holstered Sig Sauer pistol with a valid permit, stood between federal immigration agents and a woman they’d just shoved to the ground.

From Salon

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

From The Wall Street Journal

“No, seriously, it all started in 1972. I came down for Mardi Gras with a group of Sig Eps from Missouri—I went to what’s now called Missouri State. I just flipped for the city, and I’m too lazy to define what it is, exactly. After that, every time I’d get a couple of bucks, I’d go down.”

From MarketWatch

“We’re doing about a dozen vinyl releases around the 60th anniversary,” says Sig Sigworth, president of Craft Recordings.

From Los Angeles Times

Sig’s baby was born 70 years ago this autumn, on Nov. 17, when he first demonstrated how it could alert any ordinary joe schmoe listening to the radio.

From Los Angeles Times