Acyclic

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  • adjective. Not cyclic. Used especially of flowers whose parts are arranged in spirals rather than in whorls, as in magnolias.
  • adjective. Having an open-chain molecular structure rather than a ring-shaped structure.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In dynamics, not having the property of whirling or moving in circles.
  • Irregular in course; not occurring with normal periodicity.
  • In chem., containing no cycle or ring: said of organic compounds which contain no ring of atoms.
  • In botany, not cyclic; not arranged in whorls.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Of a flower, having its parts inserted spirally on the receptacle.
  • adjective. Having an open-chain structure; aliphatic.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. not cyclic; having an open chain structure
  • adjective. not cyclic
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. not cyclic; especially having parts arranged in spirals rather than whorls
  • adjective. having an open chain structure
    • Word Usage
    "The basic model creates acyclic graphs because old nodes never link to new nodes."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    cyclic  
    cross-reference
    acyclic surface  aliphatic  
    Equivalent
    aliphatic  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    aliphatic  anthraquinone  configurational  diterpene  ginkgo  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    aliphatic  loopless  
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