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What does acyclic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (chemistry) Not cyclic; having an open chain structure.
  2. (graph) Containing no cycles.
  3. (botany) Of a flower, having its parts inserted spirally on the receptacle.
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An orientation is acyclic if it contains no directed cycle, and is totally cyclic if every edge is contained in some oriented cycle.
We will consider for the following example a tree as an acyclic connected graph and a forest as an acyclic graph.
Acyclovir, an acyclic guanosine analog, binds viral DNA polymerase, acting as a chain terminator and ending replication.
For this purpose, directed acyclic graphs are suitable for describing the dependencies between the sequences.
Many applications carry out predominantly acyclic data exchanges in response to requests from the application process.
The livers of fishes and other animals are particularly rich in oils that are largely acyclic triterpenoid hydrocarbons, especially squalene.

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