sigfile

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noun

A text file containing a sig (e-mail or newsgroup signature).

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Meanings

nounsigfile (plural sigfiles)

plural sigfiles

  1. InternetA text file containing a sig (e-mail or newsgroup signature).

    You've seen sigfiles: the chunk of information at the end of an email.

    2002, Rebecca Blood, The Weblog Handbook, page 81
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    Can anyone please tell me why I get an 'output from your job etc' message back from bitnet everytime^([sic]) I send a message out? Is there a problem with my sigfile or does everyone get them?

    1994, BILL, “help with my sigfile”, in bit.listserv.help-net (Usenet)

    How do you read abbreviations (IMHO)? Quoted text? Headers? Sigfiles? Emoticons?

    2005, Randy Allen Harris, Voice Interaction Design, page 209

Origin

From sig + file.

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Cite this entry
APA

sigfile. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sigfile

MLA

“sigfile.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sigfile. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sigfile,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sigfile.

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