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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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Many applications carry out predominantly acyclic data exchanges in response to requests from the application process.
Acyclovir is an acyclic guanosine analog that inhibits viral DNA replication of infected cells.
The livers of fishes and other animals are particularly rich in oils that are largely acyclic triterpenoid hydrocarbons, especially squalene.
Cyclic data is provided at every bus scan: acyclic data is requested and provided as needed.
We will consider for the following example a tree as an acyclic connected graph and a forest as an acyclic graph.
The functional classes for proteins exist in hierarchies or directed acyclic graphs, which means that the classes are not independent of each other.

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