Definition of "inheritance"

The passing of title to an estate upon death.  examples

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

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

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

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