Linkage criterion in hierarchical clustering in which the distance between two clusters is the distance between those two objects (one from each cluster) that are farthest apart.
Note: Complete linkage tends to find compact clusters of approximately equal size.
Source:
PAC, 2016, 88, 407. 'Vocabulary of concepts and terms in chemometrics (IUPAC Recommendations 2016)' on page 427 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-0605)