n. | 1. | A narrow circle of persons associated by common interests or for the accomplishment of a common purpose; - generally used in a bad sense. |
v. i. | 1. | To To associate together in a clannish way; to act with others secretly to gain a desired end; to plot; - used with |
Noun | 1. | clique - an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose |
(mathematics) | clique - A maximal totally connected subgraph.
Given a graph with nodes N, a clique C is a subset of N
where every node in C is directly connected to every other
node in C (i.e. C is totally connected), and C contains all
such nodes (C is maximal). In other words, a clique contains
all, and only, those nodes which are directly connected to all
other nodes in the clique. |