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What does inheritance mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word inheritance? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. The passing of title to an estate upon death.
  2. (countable) That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.
  3. (biology) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
  4. (programming) In object-oriented programming, the mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.
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Mendelian inheritance is in fact an instance of a more general mechanism called Weismannist inheritance.
Further, she had additional income prised from the Church as well as her inheritance as queen dowager of France.
Individuals possess these capacities in varying degrees, but they are part of the universal genetic inheritance of the human race.
Sources close to the TD say he did not waive his rights to the inheritance.
His prospective employer, Tony, is an upper-class wastrel just come into his inheritance.
He absented himself from council meetings, got into debt, and sold off his wife's inheritance.

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