non-negligible

Adjective

Meaning

non-negligible (not comparable)

Not negligible.

Examples

But in the quantum world, everything overlaps with everything else: so there is a small but non-negligible contribution from processes where the photon temporarily "splits" into quarks. Source: Internet

For example, ACTIV is not considering what are known as “killed virus” vaccines, which introduce weakened “inactivated” versions of the virus that the body’s immune system can learn to combat—but at the non-negligible risk of infecting the patient. Source: Internet

This is particularly true when the nuisance parameters can be considered to be "missing data"; they represent a non-negligible fraction of the number of observations and this fraction does not decrease when the sample size increases. Source: Internet

This reaction may give rise to some non-negligible variations in the vapor pressure above the liquid because the nitrogen oxides produced dissolve partly or completely in the acid. Source: Internet

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