acyclic
adjective
acy·clic
(ˌ)ā-ˈsī-klik 
-ˈsi-
: not cyclic: such as
a
: not disposed in whorls or cycles
b
: having an open-chain structure : aliphatic
an acyclic compound
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Blue held her paddle high and bid $17,000 on an acyclic painting of Sidney Poitier during the event's live auction, emceed by Star Jones, according to Vanity Fair.
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Melody Chiu, Peoplemag, 4 Apr. 2023
That kind of network is called a directed acyclic graph, or DAG.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 18 Jan. 2023
Marloes Maathuis, a professor of theoretical and applied statistics at ETH Zurich, looked at how directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) could be used to derive causal relationships in data.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 15 Dec. 2020
Blue held her paddle high and bid $17,000 on an acyclic painting of Sidney Poitier during the event’s live auction, emceed by Star Jones, according to Vanity Fair.
—Jeff Nelson, PEOPLE.com, 7 June 2018
Melody Chiu, Peoplemag, 4 Apr. 2023
That kind of network is called a directed acyclic graph, or DAG.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 18 Jan. 2023
Marloes Maathuis, a professor of theoretical and applied statistics at ETH Zurich, looked at how directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) could be used to derive causal relationships in data.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 15 Dec. 2020
Blue held her paddle high and bid $17,000 on an acyclic painting of Sidney Poitier during the event’s live auction, emceed by Star Jones, according to Vanity Fair.
—Jeff Nelson, PEOPLE.com, 7 June 2018
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acyclic
adjective
acy·clic
(ˈ)ā-ˈsī-klik
-ˈsik-lik
-ˈsik-lik
1
: not occurring in periods or cycles
acyclic gonadotropin secretion
2
: having an open-chain structure
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