In a way that is not circular or cyclical; in a manner without repeating patterns.
From 'acyclic' + the adverbial suffix '-ly'. This adverb form allows the description of how something occurs or is arranged in a non-circular manner.
This word mostly lives in technical writing—mathematicians and computer scientists use it to describe how algorithms process data without looping back, which is crucial for proving certain programs will actually finish running!
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