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Inheritance vs Noninherited - What's the difference?

inheritance | noninherited |

As a noun inheritance

is the passing of title to an estate upon death.

As an adjective noninherited is

(genetics) not inherited; not passed from parent to offspring.

inheritance

English

(wikipedia inheritance)

Alternative forms

* enheritance (obsolete) * enheritaunce (obsolete) * inheritaunce (obsolete)

Noun

  • 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.

    • Related terms

    * inherit * inheritable * inheritor * preheritance

    References

    * (EtymOnLine)

    noninherited

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (genetics) Not inherited; not passed from parent to offspring.
    • a noninherited maternal antigen
  • (computing, programming) Not derived from a superclass through inheritance.

    • Related terms

    *noninheritance