CLIQUES

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Definition

noun

A small, exclusive group of individuals, usually according to lifestyle or social status; a cabal.
“This school used to be really friendly, but now everyone keeps to their own cliques.”
A subgraph isomorphic to a complete graph.
“The problem of finding the largest clique in an arbitrary graph is NP-complete.”
A group of related web sites that link to each other, like a webring but with exclusive membership determined by the clique owner.