Noun: inheritance in'he-ri-t(u)n(t)s
- Hereditary succession to a title or an office or property
"The prince's inheritance of the throne was met with nationwide celebration";
- heritage
- (law) that which is inherited; a title, property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner
"She received a substantial inheritance from her grandmother";
- heritage
- (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents
"The inheritance of the disease suggested it was linked to a recessive gene";
- hereditary pattern
- Any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors
"my only inheritance was my mother's blessing";
- heritage
- (computing) a mechanism in object-oriented programming where a new class is derived from an existing class, inheriting its properties and methods, allowing for code reuse and the creation of hierarchical relationships between classes
"Inheritance enables developers to create specialized classes based on more general ones"
Derived forms: inheritances
Type of: acquisition, attribute, genetic endowment, heredity, transferred possession, transferred property
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