inheritances
noun
Meaning
- The passing of title to an estate upon death.
- That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.
- The act or mechanism of inheriting; the state of having inherited
- (genetic algorithms) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
- The mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.
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