noun🔗ShareA 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."groupsocietyorganizationpersontoeflChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA subgraph isomorphic to a complete graph."The problem of finding the largest clique in an arbitrary graph is NP-complete."mathcomputinggrouptoeflChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA group of related web sites that link to each other, like a webring but with exclusive membership determined by the clique owner.""Sarah's website about gardening only links to other gardening websites in her exclusive clique; she doesn't accept just any site." "internetgrouptechnologycomputingcommunicationmediatoeflChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo associate together in a clannish way; to act with others secretly to gain a desired end; to plot."The employees in accounting often clique against the marketing team to get their projects prioritized. "groupactionorganizationsocietypoliticstoeflChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
