A Delsarte clique is a clique for which the inequality in the Delsarte bound for distance-regular graph becomes an equality (Koolen et al. 2023).
A distance-regular graph  that contains a set of Delsarte cliques 
 such that every edge of 
 lies in a unique member of 
 is known as a geometric distance-regular graph (Koolen et al. 2023).