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
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Younger Democratic voters and a nontrivial slice of the political press had never seen a Republican presidential candidate have such an extended lead in the national polls.
—W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 13 Aug. 2024
Mathematicians already know that the nontrivial zeta zeros are confined between 0 and 1.
—Byzack Savitsky, science.org, 29 July 2024
Riemann conjectured that all the other zeros of the function, called nontrivial zeros, have a real part of 1/2, and so are located on this vertical line.
—Jordana Cepelewicz, WIRED, 4 Aug. 2024
And indeed, a nontrivial share of them—56 percent, according to Kendall-Taylor and Frantz—experience regime change within five years of a ruler’s death.
—Brian D. Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 26 Apr. 2022
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W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 13 Aug. 2024
Mathematicians already know that the nontrivial zeta zeros are confined between 0 and 1.
—Byzack Savitsky, science.org, 29 July 2024
Riemann conjectured that all the other zeros of the function, called nontrivial zeros, have a real part of 1/2, and so are located on this vertical line.
—Jordana Cepelewicz, WIRED, 4 Aug. 2024
And indeed, a nontrivial share of them—56 percent, according to Kendall-Taylor and Frantz—experience regime change within five years of a ruler’s death.
—Brian D. Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 26 Apr. 2022
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