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1.nounThe passing of title to an estate upon death.
2.nounThat which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.
3.nounThe 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."
4.noun(genetic algorithms) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
5.nounThe mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.