inheritances

noun

1. 1

   The passing of title to an estate upon death.

2. 2

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

3. 3

   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.”

4. 4

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

5. 5

   The mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.