inheritance

noun

She received a large inheritance from her grandfather.

意味（1）

The passing of title to an estate upon death.

意味（2）

(countable) That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.

意味（3）

(uncountable, especially linguistics, biology) The act or mechanism of inheriting; the state of having inherited

The Indo-European languages share various similarities as a result of their inheritance from a common ancestor.

意味（4）

(biology, genetic algorithms) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.

意味（5）

(programming, object-oriented programming) The mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.