Definition of acyclic in English:
acyclic
adjective eɪˈsʌɪklɪkeɪˈsɪklɪkeɪˈsaɪklɪk
1Not displaying or forming part of a cycle.
Example sentencesExamples
- The network model without selection is also implemented in the directed acyclic graphs used in causal modeling.
- An orientation is acyclic if it contains no directed cycle, and is totally cyclic if every edge is contained in some oriented cycle.
- For this purpose, directed acyclic graphs are suitable for describing the dependencies between the sequences.
- The functional classes for proteins exist in hierarchies or directed acyclic graphs, which means that the classes are not independent of each other.
- Over the past 15 years, directed acyclic graphs have been introduced into the statistical and philosophical literature to describe statistical models and the causal relationships they capture.
- 1.1 (of a woman) not having a menstrual cycle.
donor age showed no influence on chance of pregnancy in acyclic patients
2Chemistry
(of a compound or molecule) containing no rings of atoms.
Example sentencesExamples
- Channel formation may be the result of the presence of the acyclic monoterpine side chain.
- Acyclovir is an acyclic guanosine analog that inhibits viral DNA replication of infected cells.
- The latter are substrates for at least seven different enzyme families, whose products are a group of cyclic and acyclic compounds, collectively named oxylipins, which play different roles in plant cells.
- Acyclovir, an acyclic guanosine analog, binds viral DNA polymerase, acting as a chain terminator and ending replication.
- We describe here the photochromism of another class of viologen inclusion complexes in which the linear acyclic viologen molecules are included in the cavity of crown ether having the pi-electron-donating units.
Definition of acyclic in US English:
acyclic
adjectiveāˈsīklikeɪˈsaɪklɪk
1Not displaying or forming part of a cycle.
Example sentencesExamples
- An orientation is acyclic if it contains no directed cycle, and is totally cyclic if every edge is contained in some oriented cycle.
- Over the past 15 years, directed acyclic graphs have been introduced into the statistical and philosophical literature to describe statistical models and the causal relationships they capture.
- The functional classes for proteins exist in hierarchies or directed acyclic graphs, which means that the classes are not independent of each other.
- For this purpose, directed acyclic graphs are suitable for describing the dependencies between the sequences.
- The network model without selection is also implemented in the directed acyclic graphs used in causal modeling.
- 1.1 (of a woman) not having a menstrual cycle.
- 1.2Chemistry (of a compound or molecule) containing no rings of atoms.
Example sentencesExamples
- Channel formation may be the result of the presence of the acyclic monoterpine side chain.
- The latter are substrates for at least seven different enzyme families, whose products are a group of cyclic and acyclic compounds, collectively named oxylipins, which play different roles in plant cells.
- Acyclovir is an acyclic guanosine analog that inhibits viral DNA replication of infected cells.
- We describe here the photochromism of another class of viologen inclusion complexes in which the linear acyclic viologen molecules are included in the cavity of crown ether having the pi-electron-donating units.
- Acyclovir, an acyclic guanosine analog, binds viral DNA polymerase, acting as a chain terminator and ending replication.