John Muir left as hislegacy an enduring spirit of respect for the environment.
1951 April, D. S. Barrie, “British Railways: A Survey, 1948-1950”, inRailway Magazine, number600, page224:
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.
2019 April 6, Caleb Quinley, “Thailand: Anti-military party leader faces sedition charges”, inAl Jazeera[1], Doha: Al Jazeera, retrieved2019-04-06:
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 thelegacy of military rule and undertake democratic reforms.
(especially computing) Left over from the past; old and no longer current.
2000, International Engineering Consortium,The Emerging Optical Network,→ISBN, page75:
They have no idea what occurs in the network or its topology, and all of the services remain dependent on it — a verylegacy approach to creating services in the optical network.
2003, Carlo Zaniolo, Peter C. Lockemann, Marc H. Scholl,Advances in Database Technology - EDBT 2000,→ISBN:
However, pre-relational DBMS arelegacy.
2006, Anne Gams Steine Asserson, Eduard J. Simons,Enabling Interaction and Quality: Beyond the Hanseatic League,→ISBN, page118:
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 becominglegacy.
2008,CIO - 15 Feb 2008 Vol. 21, No. 9, page49:
There was talk in the past that ERP systems werelegacy, lacked the agility and flexibility, and did not support interoperability.
Because most of these HALs arelegacy and only used on aging or outdated hardware, chances are that you do not have any in your lab and must be creative in procuring one from an active user.
2013, Management Association,Software Design and Development,→ISBN:
In practice, there arelegacy 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).
2024 February 24, “Outtakes or must-haves? Legacy acts won't stop releasing music - have we reached Peak Archive?”, inThe Independent[2], The Independent, retrieved2025-03-07:
