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clique

  [kleek, klik] noun, verb, cliqued, cli⋅quing.
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–noun
1. a small, exclusive group of people; coterie; set.
–verb (used without object)
2. Informal. to form, or associate in, a clique.
Origin:
1705–15; < F, appar. metaphorical use of MF clique latch, or n. deriv. of cliquer to make noise, resound, imit. word parallel to click 1

Related forms:
cliqueless, adjective
cliquey, cliquy, adjective
cliquism, noun

Synonyms:
1. See circle, ring 1 .
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clique   (klēk, klĭk)   
n.  A small exclusive group of friends or associates.
intr.v.   cliqued, cliqu·ing, cliques Informal
To form, associate in, or act as a clique.

[French, from Old French, latch or from obsolete French cliquer, to click, clink, of imitative origin.]
cliqu'ey, cliqu'y, cliqu'ish adj., cliqu'ish·ly adv., cliqu'ish·ness n.
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Clique

Clique\, n. [F., fr. OF. cliquer to click. See Click, v. i.] A narrow circle of persons associated by common interests or for the accomplishment of a common purpose; -- generally used in a bad sense.

Clique

Clique\, v. i. To To associate together in a clannish way; to act with others secretly to gain a desired end; to plot; -- used with together.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : clique
Spanish: camarilla,
German: die Clique,
Japanese: 徒党
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clique 
1711, from Fr. clique, from O.Fr. cliquer "to make a noise," echoic. Apparently this word was at one time treated as the equivalent of claque.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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clique mathematics
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.
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