A concept in which one class of objects shares some characteristics of another class.

A mechanism that allows you to share truly common code for the general case, while supplementing or replacing that code for more specific cases. Inheritance can be inferred when one class "is a kind of" another class.

The mechanism by which a subclass takes on the attributes and behaviours of its superclass.

Inheritance is a great feature that allows to create sub-classes from an existing class by inheriting the attributes and/or operations of existing classes.