1Sociology Those people who do not belong to a specific in-group.
〔社会学〕外团体，他人团体
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Language communicates, but it also divides-people from people, caste from caste, in-group from out-group.
In academic psychology, we talk of in-groups and out-groups.
Racialized discourse is a set of social practices that favours the ingroup and denigrates the out-group, categorizing, evaluating and differentiating between groups.
The world is divided into in-groups and out-groups, with those who are different seen as enemies to be conquered or destroyed.
But the authoritarian adult is the kind of person whose view of the social world is extremely highly structured, and the structure is very much based on considerations of power strength, of in-groups and out-groups.
2Biology A group of organisms not belonging to the group whose evolutionary relationships are being investigated. Such a group is used for comparison, to assess which characteristics of the group being studied are more widely distributed and may therefore be older in origin.
这种生物类群用于比较，以决定调查中的生物类群的哪些特性分布更广泛而因此起源可能更早
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An out-group was available for phylogenetic analysis.
Loligo bleekeri was used as the out-group in all phylogenetic analyses because most authors currently consider cephalopods as the sister group of gastropods.
The riverine group includes a small number of species and thus may serve as an out-group for comparison purposes.
With this test, we can determine if rates of molecular evolution are the same for two different taxa by comparing how divergent they are from a known out-group.
The plant mariner-like elements were used as a monophyletic out-group, a position suggested by previous analyses.
Definition of out-group in US English:
out-group
nounaʊt ɡrup
1Sociology Those people who do not belong to a specific in-group.
〔社会学〕外团体，他人团体
Example sentencesExamples
The world is divided into in-groups and out-groups, with those who are different seen as enemies to be conquered or destroyed.
Language communicates, but it also divides-people from people, caste from caste, in-group from out-group.
In academic psychology, we talk of in-groups and out-groups.
Racialized discourse is a set of social practices that favours the ingroup and denigrates the out-group, categorizing, evaluating and differentiating between groups.
But the authoritarian adult is the kind of person whose view of the social world is extremely highly structured, and the structure is very much based on considerations of power strength, of in-groups and out-groups.
2Biology A group of organisms not belonging to the group whose evolutionary relationships are being investigated.
〔生〕外群
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With this test, we can determine if rates of molecular evolution are the same for two different taxa by comparing how divergent they are from a known out-group.
The riverine group includes a small number of species and thus may serve as an out-group for comparison purposes.
Loligo bleekeri was used as the out-group in all phylogenetic analyses because most authors currently consider cephalopods as the sister group of gastropods.
The plant mariner-like elements were used as a monophyletic out-group, a position suggested by previous analyses.
An out-group was available for phylogenetic analysis.