ingroup in English

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an exclusive, typically small, group of people with a shared interest or identity.
This heightened awareness becomes personally relevant when one commits to identifying with the ethnic in-group .
synonyms:inner circlein-crowdpopular crowdcliquesetcirclecoteriegangbunchcrew
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1. The purpose of a Cladogram is to express a particular hypothesis for the relative branching order of the ingroup taxa

2. In Cladistics or phylogenetics, an outgroup is a more distantly related group of organisms that serves as a reference group when determining the evolutionary relationships of the ingroup, the set of organisms under study, and is distinct from sociological outgroups.The outgroup is used as a point of comparison for the ingroup and specifically allows for the phylogeny to be rooted.

3. Coterie: 1 n an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose Synonyms: camp , clique , ingroup , inner circle , pack Types: show 16 types hide 16 types Bloomsbury Group an inner circle of writers and artists and philosophers who lived in or around Bloomsbury early in the 20th century and were noted for their unconventional lifestyles