clique

/kliหk/

IPA: /K L IY1 K/

noun
  1. 1

    A small, exclusive group of individuals, usually according to lifestyle or social status; a cabal.

    โ€œThis school used to be really friendly, but now everyone keeps to their own cliques.โ€

  2. 2

    A subgraph isomorphic to a complete graph.

    โ€œThe problem of finding the largest clique in an arbitrary graph is NP-complete.โ€

  3. 3

    A group of related web sites that link to each other, like a webring but with exclusive membership determined by the clique owner.

verb
  1. 1

    To associate together in a clannish way; to act with others secretly to gain a desired end; to plot.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clique