Meaning

The passing of title to an estate upon death..

Definitions by Sense

1. The passing of title to an estate upon death.
2. (countable) That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament, such as the part of an estate (i.e., a portion).
3. (uncountable, especially linguistics, biology) The act or mechanism of inheriting; the state of having inherited.
4. (biology, genetic algorithms) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
5. (programming, object-oriented programming) The mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.

Example Sentences

The Indo-European languages share various similarities as a result of their inheritance from a common ancestor.

Word Forms

• inheritances
• enheritance
• enheritaunce
• inheritaunce
• inhæritance

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When Should You Use Inheritance?

Use inheritance when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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