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Crucial vs Nontrivial - What's the difference?

crucial | nontrivial |

As adjectives the difference between crucial and nontrivial

is that crucial is being essential or decisive for determining the outcome or future of something; extremely important while nontrivial is not trivial.

crucial

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Being essential or decisive for determining the outcome or future of something; extremely important.
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  • , volume=190, issue=13, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Perfume manufacturers must cope with the scarcity of precious supplies , passage=The perfume industry is facing a major problem: maintaining constant levels of quality is crucial , but it is increasingly difficult to obtain a regular supply of all the necessary natural ingredients.}}
  • (label) Cruciform or cruciate; cross-shaped.
  • Term of approval, particularly when applied to reggae music.
  • Derived terms

    * crucial experiment

    References

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    nontrivial

    English

    Alternative forms

    * non-trivial

    Adjective

    (wikipedia nontrivial) (en adjective)
  • Not trivial.
  • (mathematics) Having at least one non-zero variable.
  • (computing) Needing significant computing power to solve; intractable.
  • Derived terms

    * nontrivially