Acyclic

Acyclic can mean any of the following:

In chemistry, an acyclic compound is a hydrocarbon compound having an open chain (i.e., no rings). See aliphatic.
In mathematics, specifically homological algebra, a chain complex is called acyclic if all of its homology groups are zero, or, equivalently, if it is an exact sequence.

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