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Acyclic
Introduction
Acyclic can refer to:
- in chemistry, a compound which is not cyclic, e.g. alkanes and acyclic aliphatic compounds
- in mathematics:
- a directed acyclic graph
- a chain complex in which all reduced homology groups are zero