legacy
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
education
engineering
law
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English legacie, from Old French legacie and Medieval Latin lēgātia, from Latin lēgātum.
The boardgame sense was coined by game designer Rob Daviau in 2011 with the game Risk Legacy.
Inflected forms:
form: legacies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Money or property bequeathed to someone in a will.
pos: noun
gloss: Something inherited from a predecessor or the past.
pos: noun
examples: John Muir left as his legacy an enduring spirit of respect for the environment.
During the first year or so of British Railways, some of the simpler and more obvious inter-regional transfers of outlying sections were effected, such as those of the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway from the London Midland Region to the Eastern Region; the South Wales lines of the former L.M.S.R. to the Western Region; the Carlisle-Silloth branch (an L.N.E.R. legacy of a North British "border raid") to the London Midland, and so on.
And judging by how well the progressive and youth-favoured party did, many observers suspect this latest round of legal charges are a response to Future Forward's commitment to undo the legacy of military rule and undertake democratic reforms.
As the country reckons with how to prevent more children from being killed at school, the legacies of the Parkland victims live on.
gloss: The descendant of an alumnus, given preference in academic admissions.
pos: noun
examples: Because she was a legacy, her mother's sorority rushed her.
gloss: Left over from the past; old and no longer current.
pos: adj
tags: especially
not-comparable
examples: 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.
There was talk in the past that ERP systems were legacy, lacked the agility and flexibility, and did not support interoperability.
Because most of these HALs are legacy and only used on aging or outdated hardware, chances are that you do not have any in your lab and must be creative in procuring one from an active user.
In practice, there are legacy or mature, domain specific, off the shelf (i.e. software that other software projects can reuse and integrate into their own products) tools that are used regularly by modeleres (e.g., for testing purposes, for communication and collaboration).
Legacy acts won't stop releasing music
gloss: 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.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
postpositional
sometimes
examples: 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.
The social deception game Blood on the Clocktower has recently used this mechanic to significant effect to create a legacy version of Mafia.
Derived words: demonstrative legacy
legacy code
legacy-free
legacy hunter
legacy media
legacy Oscar
legacy sequel
legacy student
legacy system
nonlegacy
unlegacied
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