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Discontinued vs Legacy - What's the difference?

discontinued | legacy |

As adjectives the difference between discontinued and legacy

is that discontinued is permanently no longer available or in production while legacy is of a computer system that has been in service for many years and that a business still relies upon, even though it is becoming expensive or difficult to maintain.

As a verb discontinued

is past tense of discontinue.

As a noun legacy is

money or property bequeathed to someone in a will.

discontinued

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Permanently no longer available or in production.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (discontinue)
    • This software line has been discontinued .

    legacy

    English

    Noun

    (legacies)
  • (legal) money or property bequeathed to someone in a will
  • Something inherited from a predecessor; a heritage
    • left as his legacy an enduring spirit of respect for the environment.
  • The descendant of an alumnus
    • Because she was a legacy , her mother's sorority rushed her.

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (computing) of a computer system that has been in service for many years and that a business still relies upon, even though it is becoming expensive or difficult to maintain
  • left behind; old or no longer in active use
    • They expect it to take years to process and import all the legacy data.
    ''A legacy number or legacy identifier means a number no longer in use (for a document, for example)."