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directed acyclic graph

directed acyclic graph noun: a finite directed graph that contains no directed cycles.

directed acyclic graph: a finite directed graph that contains no directed cycles
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Noun

directed acyclic graph (plural directed acyclic graphs)

  1. A finite directed graph that contains no directed cycles.
    • A subset S of the vertices of a directed acyclic graph is called glb-closed, if it contains the greatest lower bounds of all pairs of vertices of S. […] Directed acyclic graphs are widely used in different areas of computer science.1995, Volker Turan, Weimin Chen, GLB-closures in Directed Acyclic Graphs and Their Applications, Ernst W. Mayr, Gunther Schmidt, Gottfried Tinhofer (editors), Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer...
    • In studying these properties, a distinction is made between directed acyclic graphs with directed edges and simple acyclic graphs with undirected edges.[…]A directed acyclic graph G#61;(V#59;R) is asymmetric and does not contain cycles.2001, Peter J. Pahl, Rudolf Damrath, Mathematical Foundations of Computational Engineering: A Handbook, Springer, page 574
    Synonyms:
    acyclic digraph, acyclic directed graph, DAG

Synonyms of directed acyclic graph

Forms of directed acyclic graph

pluraldirected acyclic graphs

Questions about directed acyclic graph

What does directed acyclic graph mean?
Directed acyclic graph means a finite directed graph that contains no directed cycles.
What part of speech is directed acyclic graph?
Directed acyclic graph is a noun.
What is the plural of directed acyclic graph?
The plural of directed acyclic graph is directed acyclic graphs.

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