acyclic

Adjective

Meaning

having an open chain structure

not cyclic; especially having parts arranged in spirals rather than whorls

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Synonyms

open-chain linear greasy acyl noncyclic aliphatic aperiodic unbranched nonperiodic alicyclic loopless nonserial acyclically backfat continuous carbon chain
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Antonyms

cyclic regular rhythmic periodic recurring periodical
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Phrases with the word

acyclic carbon chain acyclic directed graph

Examples

A monosaccharide can switch from the acyclic (open-chain) form to a cyclic form, through a nucleophilic addition reaction between the carbonyl group and one of the hydroxyls of the same molecule. Source: Internet

An upward planar graph is a directed acyclic graph that can be drawn in the plane with its edges as non-crossing curves that are consistently oriented in an upward direction. Source: Internet

Conversion between the furanose, acyclic, and pyranose forms of D-glucose. Source: Internet

Equivalently, a forest is an undirected acyclic graph. Source: Internet

However, specialized cases (such as bounded/integer weights, directed acyclic graphs etc.) can indeed be improved further as detailed in main. Source: Internet

In reality the structure is more complicated, forming a directed acyclic graph, but for many purposes "tree with merges" is an adequate approximation. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

acyanopsia acyanosis acyanotic acyclic carbon chain acyclic digraph acyclic directed graph