Noun

(en noun)

A small, exclusive group of individuals; cabal

This school used to be really friendly, but now everyone keeps to their own cliques .

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

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

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

* 1999 , "Jackie", someone help me out?'' (on newsgroup ''alt.fan.leo-dicaprio )

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

* 2000 , "- deanna -", ot: hiya'' (on newsgroup ''alt.fan.backstreet.boys )

even though we're not "regulars" anymore...*sniffle*...we still can't forget the NG...i always tell new fans about it...(people who join my clique , etc...)...and besides...i owe the NG a LOT...itz where i met my best friend...

* 2001 , "spee2k", future no doubt website....'' (on newsgroup ''alt.music.no-doubt )

you always have to click some big section and you get a whole new set of options in a different frame, thats(SIC) usually on the other side of the screen. when you're there, you can choose from (in a section site stuff or something like that) link me, link you, links, top 10 links, free for all links, cliques , and webrings.

Noun

(en noun)

An abstract sphere of influence, real or imagined.

* 1907 , Tada Kanai, translated by Arthur Lloyd, Seven Buddhist Sermons , ""

Why should we despise anything in the realm of Buddha?

* 2006 , Christian Neef, " Diary of a Collapsing Superpower", Spiegel Magazine , November 22,

At home in Moscow, Mikhail Sergeyevitch Gorbachev, who had launched a campaign to rejuvenate the Soviet realm  

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The domain of a certain abstraction.

* 1922 , Judson Eber Conant,The Church The Schools and Evolution , "",

One thing more which the scientific man does is to accord primacy to that realm of truth which is primary in importance.

(formal, or, legal) A territory or state, as ruled by a specific power, and particularly those territories ruled by a king.

* 1874 , ,

And, of this island realm , he and his companion were the undisputed sovereigns.

* 1913 , Leslie Alexander Toke, Catholic Encyclopedia , "",

Then seeing his life was threatened he fled the realm and crossed over to Flanders,