decycle

English

Etymology

From de- +‎ cycle.

Verb

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.

Anagrams

• e-cycled, ecycled