Acyclic can refer to:
- in chemistry, a compound which is not cyclic, e. Chemistry (from Egyptian kēme (chem meaning "earth") is the Science concerned with the composition structure and properties In Organic chemistry, a cyclic compound is a compound in which a series of carbon atoms are connected to form a loop or ring g. alkanes and acyclic aliphatic compounds
- in mathematics:
Alkanes, also known as Paraffins are Chemical compounds that consist only of the elements Carbon (C and Hydrogen (H (i In Organic chemistry, compounds composed of Carbon and Hydrogen are divided into two classes Aromatic compounds which contain Benzene rings Mathematics is the body of Knowledge and Academic discipline that studies such concepts as Quantity, Structure, Space and In Computer science and Mathematics, a directed acyclic graph, also called a DAG, is a with no; that is for any vertex v, there In Mathematics, a chain complex is a construct originally used in the field of Algebraic topology. In Mathematics, reduced homology is a minor modification made to Homology theory in Algebraic topology, designed to make a point have all its Homology
Dictionary
acyclic
-adjective
- (chemistry) not cyclic; having an open chain structure
- (graph theory) not cyclic
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