legacy

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Money or property bequeathed to someone in a will.

2. 2

   Something inherited from a predecessor or the past.

   • John Muir left as his legacy an enduring spirit of respect for the environment.
3. 3

   The descendant of an alumnus, given preference in academic admissions.

   • Because she was a legacy, her mother's sorority rushed her.
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   1. 4

      Left over from the past

      Left over from the past; old and no longer current.

      • They have no idea what occurs in the network or its topology, and all of the services remain dependent on it — a very legacy approach to creating services in the optical network.
      • However, pre-relational DBMS are legacy.
      • Finally, the organisation ends up with an expensive ERP of which it uses only part because of divergent evolutionary directions and a set of new systems fast becoming legacy.
   2. 5

      Belonging to a class of boardgame where permanent changes are made to game elements such…

      Belonging to a class of boardgame where permanent changes are made to game elements such as the board, cards and rules over multiple play sessions.

      • Risk Legacy, in 2011, was the first game to give visibility to the idea of progressive and irreversible discovery in the board gaming hobby, 2 and it did so by applying it to the well-known game Risk.
      • Over the course of the years that Daviau worked on Seafall, the first legacy game that was not based on a previously existing product, the mechanic became one of the hotter things in game design
      • Pandemic Legacy can take weeks or even months to play given different groups' play styles.

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