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Two Groups 
 and 
 are said to be isoclinic if there are isomorphisms 
 and 
,
where 
 is the Center of the group, which identify the two commutator maps.
References
Conway, J. H.; Curtis, R. T.; Norton, S. P.; Parker, R. A.; and Wilson, R. A.  ``Isoclinism.''  §6.7 in 
  Atlas of Finite Groups: Maximal Subgroups and Ordinary Characters for Simple Groups.  Oxford, England:
  Clarendon Press, pp. xxiii-xxiv, 1985.