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inheritances

noun

Meaning

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

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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