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[in-her-i-tuh

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noun

something that is or may be inherited; property passing at the owner's death to the heir or those entitled to succeed; legacy.

the genetic characters transmitted from parent to offspring, taken collectively.

something, as a quality, characteristic, or other immaterial possession, received from progenitors or predecessors as if by succession: an inheritance of family pride.

the act or fact of inheriting by succession, as if by succession, or genetically: to receive property by inheritance.

portion; birthright; heritage: Absolute rule was considered the inheritance of kings.

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Obsolete. right of possession; ownership.

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Origin:
1375–1425; Middle English enheritance < Anglo-French. See inherit, -ance

Related forms

pre·in·her·it·ance, noun

Synonyms
1. patrimony; bequest. Inheritance, heritage denote something inherited. Inheritance is the common term for property or any possession that comes to an heir: He received the farm as an inheritance from his parents. Heritage indicates something that is bequeathed to a subsequent generation by an individual or by society: our cultural heritage from Greece and Rome.

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Example Sentences

Turning down an inheritance may seem to be an alien concept.

Madoff finds the study of laws on death and inheritance fascinating.

And that-the inheritance of an acquired characteristic-is quite startling.

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Turning down an inheritance may seem to be an alien concept.

Madoff finds the study of laws on death and inheritance fascinating.

And that-the inheritance of an acquired characteristic-is quite startling.

Darwin's own ideas on the mechanism of inheritance were a mess-and wrong.

Using standard inheritance theory, scientists have searched for the genes underlying autism with little success.

He is successful financially, with perhaps an inheritance as a solid background.

If only it didn't take a deal with the devil or a major inheritance to land a piece of real-estate heaven here.

They tracked the inheritance of this variant from parent to child in families with a history of bipolar disorder.

The cable informs us of a novel way of both paying and evading the inheritance tax or death duties.

Even if you don't, if you came into an inheritance someday, that could be snatched away.

Whether or not scrapping inheritance taxes makes sense, thoughtful and well-targeted philanthropy is clearly to be encouraged.

Evidence of epigenetic adaptation and inheritance opens up many new doors of speculation about evolution.

Laws of inheritance that are part and parcel of the theory of evolution.

He has also spoken out on major policy issues, for example, by opposing proposals to cut back the inheritance tax.

Connecticut's estate tax for years was linked to the federal inheritance tax.

Data mining may prove a useful device in our longstanding effort to understand our cultural inheritance.

There is evidence of genetic influence, but no clear pattern of inheritance.

Fifteen years before the work began, her father-in-law tried to steal her inheritance.

Putting a harsh cap on inheritance would be a good start.

Recessive inheritance occurs when both matching genes must be abnormal to produce disease.

He also allowed me to invest a modest inheritance from his grandmother.

First, he would fairly point to the difficulties of his inheritance.

Ball argues against the inheritance of certain conditions in animal life as brought about by use or disuse.

Most can't step through something as straightforward as a random walk gene inheritance tree.

Step-mom a lot younger than dad with nieces and nephew in the picture that will probably get my inheritance.

Parents' difficult choice: how best to use an inheritance to encourage their children to be independent adults.

The rights conferred by marriage and civil partnership-over property, pensions, inheritance and so forth-are virtually identical.

All involve problems in the muscle cells but have different inheritance patterns.

That's the generation that usually prefers to squander its inheritance rather than add to it.

Inheritance laws mean land gets divided up to multiple family members of deceased owners.

Family studies also have demonstrated a clear genetic inheritance pattern spanning various generations.

Americans are playing the part of the prodigal son with their inheritance.

Children who have grown distant from the land are likelier to sell it than to work hard to pay off inheritance taxes.

The main political inheritance came from a great-great-great.

He favours inheritance tax and gives money to such causes as birth control and anti-nuclear campaigning.

But he reckons that work overtook inheritance as a source of fortunes in the mid.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

inheritance (ɪnˈhɛrɪtəns)

—n
1.	law
	a. hereditary succession to an estate, title, etc
	b. the right of an heir to succeed to property on the death of an ancestor
	c. something that may legally be transmitted to an heir
2.	the act of inheriting
3.	something inherited; heritage
4.	the derivation of characteristics of one generation from an earlier one by heredity
5.	obsolete hereditary rights

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Word Origin & History

inheritance

"that which is inherited," late 15c., from inherit.

American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

inheritance in·her·i·tance (ĭn-hěr'ĭ-təns)
n.

The process of genetic transmission of traits from parents to offspring.
A characteristic so inherited.
The sum of characteristics genetically transmitted from parents to offspring.

American Heritage

Science Dictionary

inheritance

(ĭn-hěr'ĭ-təns) Pronunciation Key
The process by which traits or characteristics pass from parents to offspring through the genes.

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Computing Dictionary

inheritance definition

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.
(2000-10-10)

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