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de- +‎ cycle

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decycle (third-person singular simple present decycles, present participle decycling, simple past and past participle decycled)

  1. (graph theory, transitive) To remove the cycles from.
    • 2009, Ioannis G. Tollis, Maurizio Patrignani, Graph Drawing: 16th International Symposium:
      In the decycling phase it removes or redirects some edges until the resulting graph is acyclic.

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