Meaning of INHERITANCE
| Pronunciation: | | in'heritns
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- [n] hereditary succession to a title or an office or property
- [n] any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors; "my only inheritance was my mother's blessing"; "the world's heritage of knowledge"
- [n] (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents
- [n] that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner
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| | Synonyms: | | hereditary pattern, heritage, heritage, heritage |
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| | See Also: | | accretion, acquisition, ancestry, attribute, background, bequest, birthright, birthright, borough English, derivation, devise, filiation, gene linkage, genetic endowment, heirloom, heredity, legacy, lineage, linkage, patrimony, primogeniture, transferred possession, transferred property, upbringing, X-linked dominant inheritance, X-linked recessive inheritance | |
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| | Definition: | |  Inheritance
Michael`s crowning achievement is a sumptuous saga of a woman`s journey to her dreams; of a powerful family pitted against an orphaned family; of a passionate love, won and lost and regained. more details ... |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In*her"it*ance\, n. [Cf. OF. enheritance.]
1. The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an
estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities.
2. That which is or may be inherited; that which is derived
by an heir from an ancestor or other person; a heritage; a
possession which passes by descent.
When the man dies, let the inheritance Descend unto
the daughter. --Shak.
3. A permanent or valuable possession or blessing, esp. one
received by gift or without purchase; a benefaction.
To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and
that fadeth not away. --1 Pet. i. 4.
4. Possession; ownership; acquisition. ``The inheritance of
their loves.'' --Shak.
To you th' inheritance belongs by right Of brother's
praise; to you eke ?longs his love. --Spenser.
5. (Biol.) Transmission and reception by animal or plant
generation.
6. (Law) A perpetual or continuing right which a man and his
heirs have to an estate; an estate which a man has by
descent as heir to another, or which he may transmit to
another as his heir; an estate derived from an ancestor to
an heir in course of law. --Blackstone.
Note: The word inheritance (used simply) is mostly confined
to the title to land and tenements by a descent.
--Mozley & W.
Men are not proprietors of what they have, merely
for themselves; their children have a title to
part of it which comes to be wholly theirs when
death has put an end to their parents' use of it;
and this we call inheritance. --Locke.
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| | Definition: | | 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. |
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| Dream Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Dreaming that you receive an inheritance means success and ease of obtaining your desires. You have been given many opportunities in your life. |
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| | Definition: | | The acquiring of a set of physical or behavioral characteristics from a parent. |
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| | Related Terms: | | allele, allelomorph, Altmann theory, attested copy, bequeathal, bequest, birth, birthright, borough-English, character, chromatid, chromatin, chromosome, codicil, coheirship, coparcenary, De Vries theory, determinant, determiner, devise, diathesis, DNA, endowment, entail, eugenics, factor, Galtonian theory, gavelkind, gene, genesiology, genetic code, genetics, heirloom, heirship, hereditability, hereditament, heredity, heritability, heritable, heritage, heritance, inborn capacity, incorporeal hereditament, inheritability, law of succession, legacy, line of succession, matrocliny, Mendelianism, Mendelism, mode of succession, patrimony, patrocliny, pharmacogenetics, postremogeniture, primogeniture, probate, property, recessive character, replication, reversion, RNA, succession, testament, ultimogeniture, Verworn theory, Weismann theory, Weismannism, Wiesner theory, will |
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