nontrivial

American  

[non-triv-ee-uhl] / nɒnˈtrɪv i əl /

adjective

1. not trivial.

2. Mathematics.  noting a solution of a linear equation in which the value of at least one variable of the equation is not equal to zero.

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Etymology

Origin of nontrivial

First recorded in 1910–15; non- + trivial

Example Sentences

A 2022 survey of the field found that, of the 480 researchers who responded, 51 percent believed that large language models could eventually “understand natural language in some nontrivial sense,” and 49 percent believed that they could not.

From New York Times

Katie Bach, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who was not involved in the report, said the study showed that “we have a group of people who got long Covid and at least up until now have been unable to get back to work, and it is a nontrivial number of people.”

From New York Times

There was also a nontrivial number of new runoff voters – people who voted in the runoff but not in November.

From Salon

He added that the “nontrivial possibility” that it might have emerged from a lab should inform decisions about lab safety and oversight of dangerous research.

From New York Times

Getting particle physicists to agree on a unified vision is, in their jargon, “nontrivial.”

From Scientific American