inheritance
//ɪnˈhɛrɪtəns//
Noun
inheritanceSingular
inheritancesPlural
1
Money, property, or a title received from someone who has died.
She received a large inheritance from her grandmother.
2
The act or process of inheriting something from a predecessor.
The inheritance of the family business took several months to complete.
3
A characteristic or quality passed down genetically from parents to offspring.
Her curly hair is an inheritance from her mother.
4
(Computing) A mechanism in object-oriented programming where a class derives properties and behaviors from a parent class.
In object-oriented programming, inheritance allows a child class to reuse code from its parent class.