noun

• The passing of title to an estate upon death.
• (countable) That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.
• (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.