ALL meanings of inheritance
in·her·it·ance
I i - noun inheritance A thing that is inherited. 1
- noun inheritance something that is or may be inherited; property passing at the owner's death to the heir or those entitled to succeed; legacy. 1
- noun inheritance the genetic characters transmitted from parent to offspring, taken collectively. 1
- noun inheritance something, as a quality, characteristic, or other immaterial possession, received from progenitors or predecessors as if by succession: an inheritance of family pride. 1
- noun inheritance the act or fact of inheriting by succession, as if by succession, or genetically: to receive property by inheritance. 1
- noun inheritance portion; birthright; heritage: Absolute rule was considered the inheritance of kings. 1
- noun inheritance Obsolete. right of possession; ownership. 1
- noun inheritance inherited goods 1
- noun inheritance cultural 1
- noun inheritance title, estate 1
- noun inheritance right to inherit 1
- noun inheritance process 1
- noun Technical meaning of inheritance (programming, object-oriented) In object-oriented programming, the ability to derive new classes from existing classes. A derived class (or "subclass") inherits the instance variables and methods of the "base class" (or "superclass"), and may add new instance variables and methods. New methods may be defined with the same names as those in the base class, in which case they override the original one. For example, bytes might belong to the class of integers for which an add method might be defined. The byte class would inherit the add method from the integer class. See also Liskov substitution principle, multiple inheritance. 1
- noun inheritance The passing of title to an estate upon death. 0
- noun inheritance (Countable Noun) That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament. 0
- noun inheritance (biology) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring. 0
- noun inheritance (programming, object-oriented) In object-oriented programming, the mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass. 0
- variable noun inheritance An inheritance is money or property which you receive from someone who has died. 0
- countable noun inheritance If you get something such as job, problem, or attitude from someone who used to have it, you can refer to this as an inheritance. 0
- singular noun inheritance Your inheritance is the particular characteristics or qualities which your family or ancestors had and which you are born with. 0
- noun inheritance hereditary succession to an estate, title, etc 0
- noun inheritance the right of an heir to succeed to property on the death of an ancestor 0
- noun inheritance something that may legally be transmitted to an heir 0
- noun inheritance the act of inheriting 0
- noun inheritance something inherited; heritage 0
- noun inheritance the derivation of characteristics of one generation from an earlier one by heredity 0
- noun inheritance hereditary rights 0
- noun inheritance the action of inheriting 0
- noun inheritance something inherited or to be inherited; legacy; bequest 0
- noun inheritance ownership by virtue of birthright; right to inherit 0
- noun inheritance anything received as if by inheritance from a predecessor 0
- noun inheritance any characteristic passed on by heredity 0