[{"word":"inheritances","phonetics":[],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"The passing of title to an estate upon death.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"The act or mechanism of inheriting; the state of having inherited","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"The Indo-European languages share various similarities as a result of their inheritance from a common ancestor."},{"definition":"(genetic algorithms) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"The mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/inheritance","https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/inheritances"]}]