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inheritance
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inheritance
Noun
  • The passing of title to an estate upon death.
  • That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament. countable
  • The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring. biology
  • In object-oriented programming, the mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass. programming, object-oriented programming