title: Acyclic
text: # Acyclic
  
  Acyclic may refer to:
  
  * In chemistry, a compound which is an open-chain compound, e.g. alkanes and acyclic aliphatic compounds
  * In mathematics:
     * A graph without a cycle, especially
        * A directed acyclic graph
     * An acyclic complex is a chain complex all of whose homology groups are zero
  * In economics, an economic indicator with little or no correlation to the business cycle
  