English Dictionary

clique

/kliːk/

noun

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

She formed a clique with her closest friends.

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.