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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, such as the part of an estate (i.e., a portion).
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.NounThe biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
5.NounThe mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.