nontrivial
adjective
non·triv·i·al ˌnän-ˈtri-vē-əl 
1
: not trivial : significant, important
a small but nontrivial amount
… engineering a power plant around the technology is a nontrivial problem.
John Fleck
John Fleck2
mathematics : having the value of at least one variable or term not equal to zero
a nontrivial solution
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Building out the infrastructure to run AI models in production and at scale is nontrivial. Pete Hanlon, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022 These problems give way to a third one: the sheer unusability for most end users and the nontrivial cost and complexity each service faces when trying to offer MFA. Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 6 May 2022 The likelihood of dying by accident in the U.S. is nontrivial: One in 24 people die this way. Rhoda Feng, The New Republic, 6 Apr. 2022 The manic energy is surely intentional, at least insofar as puberty works up nontrivial surges of eros and frenetic drive that need to get displaced somewhere. Jane Hu, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2022 One nontrivial risk that should concern public-health officials is that side effects from Covid shots could make children and parents wary of other vaccines. Allysia Finley, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2022 The challenge of writing software that interacts with multiple chains in a safe manner is nontrivial, and only a limited number of tools and techniques can test the soundness of the code. Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 4 Feb. 2022 In the world of telecommunications, malicious actors face a nontrivial challenge. David Balaban, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022 Returning to the original purpose of my experiment, I was heartened to learn that thousands of users are spending nontrivial amounts of time each day working in a virtual world, as this finding validates some of my predictions from 2016. Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021 See More
Pete Hanlon, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022 These problems give way to a third one: the sheer unusability for most end users and the nontrivial cost and complexity each service faces when trying to offer MFA. Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 6 May 2022 The likelihood of dying by accident in the U.S. is nontrivial: One in 24 people die this way. Rhoda Feng, The New Republic, 6 Apr. 2022 The manic energy is surely intentional, at least insofar as puberty works up nontrivial surges of eros and frenetic drive that need to get displaced somewhere. Jane Hu, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2022 One nontrivial risk that should concern public-health officials is that side effects from Covid shots could make children and parents wary of other vaccines. Allysia Finley, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2022 The challenge of writing software that interacts with multiple chains in a safe manner is nontrivial, and only a limited number of tools and techniques can test the soundness of the code. Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 4 Feb. 2022 In the world of telecommunications, malicious actors face a nontrivial challenge. David Balaban, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022 Returning to the original purpose of my experiment, I was heartened to learn that thousands of users are spending nontrivial amounts of time each day working in a virtual world, as this finding validates some of my predictions from 2016. Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021 See More Word History
First Known Use
1901, in the meaning defined at sense 2