What is the meaning of a lytic cycle?

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The lytic cycle is actually known to be one of the two cycles of the viral reproduction (which is referring to the bacterial viruses or the bacteriophages), the other cycle is actually being called " the lysogenic cycle"....

The lytic cycle actually do results in the actual destructions of the infected cells and also its membrane. ..the Bacteriophages which only uses the lytic cycle are actually called the "virulent phages" (which is in contrast to the temperate phages).

it is a known fact that In the lytic cycle, the viral DNA actually do exist as the separate free floating molecule that is within the bacterial cell, and also really replicates separately from the actual host bacterial DNA, but in the lysogenic cycle, the viral DNA is actually located within or around the host DNA. That is the key difference present between the lytic and the lysogenic (bacterio)phage cycles. ...However, actually in both cases the phage/virus actually do replicate using the host DNA machinery....