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S vs Inheritance - What's the difference?

s | inheritance |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun inheritance is

the passing of title to an estate upon death.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    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

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