outgroup

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Definition of outgroup

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. The group of people who do not belong to one's own social group.
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noun

  1. The group of people who do not belong to one's own social group.
  2. In cladistics, all the taxa included in a study that do not belong to the ingroup that is of immediate interest.
    “A cladistic analysis of 45 ingroup and two outgroup taxa was performed on the basis of 134 characters.”
    “To study the genetic relationships among diphyllobothroid tapeworms, other members of the Diphyllobothriidae are considered, with T. solium as the outgroup.”

verb

  1. To form an outgroup.

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Etymology

From out- + group.

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