Descent vs Inheritance - What's the difference?
descent | inheritance |
An instance of descending
* 2012 , July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited,
A way down.
A sloping passage or incline.
Lineage or hereditary derivation
A drop to a lower status or condition.
The passing of title to an estate upon death.
(lb) That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.
(lb) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
In object-oriented programming, the mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.
As nouns the difference between descent and inheritance
is that descent is an instance of descending while inheritance is the passing of title to an estate upon death.descent
English
Noun
(en noun)- We climbed the mountain with difficulty, but the descent was easier.
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- The next one surrendered his bike, only for that, too, to give him a second flat as he started the descent .
- We had difficulty in finding the correct descent .
- The descent into the cavern was wet and slippery.
- Our guide was of Welsh descent .
- After that, the holiday went into a steep descent .
