English Dictionary

clique

IPA（発音記号）

/kliːk/

名詞

インターネット

A small, exclusive group of individuals, usually according to lifestyle or social status; a cabal. / (graph theory) A subgraph isomorphic to a complete graph.

日本語の意味

（社会的、生活様式による）排他的な小規模集団、仲間内、派閥 / （グラフ理論において）完全グラフと同型な部分グラフ

She felt excluded from the clique at school, where everyone seemed to share the same interests and background.

彼女は学校の小さくて排他的な仲間グループから仲間外れにされていると感じていた。みんなが同じ興味や背景を共有しているように見えた。

意味（1）

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.

意味（2）

(graph theory) A subgraph isomorphic to a complete graph.

The problem of finding the largest clique in an arbitrary graph is NP-complete.

意味（3）

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

Does anyone know what an internet clique is/does? I came across a few and am thoroughly confused.

cliques （ plural ）