English Dictionary

outgroup

noun

(sociology) The group of people who do not belong to one's own social group.

The outgroup consists of individuals from different cultures.

意味（1）

(sociology) The group of people who do not belong to one's own social group.

意味（2）

(systematics) 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.