(n.) One of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.
(a.) Found anywhere; common.
(a.) Ordinary; commonplace; trifling; vulgar.
(a.) Of little worth or importance; inconsiderable; trifling; petty; paltry; as, a trivial subject or affair.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the trivium.
Example Sentences:
(1) The case of a 32-year-old man who suffered a blow to his left supraorbital region and eyebrow in an automatic closing door is reported to draw attention to the uncommon but trivial nature of this injury which may result in profound visual loss.
(2) Governmental regulations, requirements, and standards have improved the quality of many laboratories' work, but also result in greatly increased costs, excesses of often trivial procedures, and diversion of trained manpower from clinical service to regulatory procedures, with a resulting increase in manpower needs.
(3) Things are both more trivial than they ever were, and more important than they ever were, and the difference between the trivial and the important doesn't seem to matter.
(4) While they might technically have been denied a majority in that scenario, making up the two missing seats would have been trivial.
(5) We have shown that patients with chronic airflow obstruction (CAO) complain of disabling dyspnea when performing seemingly trivial tasks with unsupported arms.
(6) Given the documented sensitivity of chest radiography in this respect, we conclude that any increase in extravascular lung water during exercise must be trivial.
(7) schizophrenia), the underestimation of prevalence by the proband method may be non-trivial.
(8) They range from relatively trivial conditions such as oral and genital thrush to fatal, systemic superinfections in patients who are already seriously ill with other diseases.
(9) Snoring usually is trivial and unimportant, but it can turn into a social or medical problem.
(10) To the sensitization and the sensitine production the following type strains (Trudeau Institute Saranac Lake) were used: M. avium, M. borstelense, M.chelonei, M. flavescens, M. fortuitum, M. gastri, M. gordonae, M.kansaii, M. marinum, M nonchromogenicum, M. phlei, M. scrofulaceum, M. smegmatis, M. terrae, M. triviale and M. bovis strain Vallee as well as M. intracellulare serotyp Davis ATCC 23435.
(11) Cardiovascular sequelae were generally trivial at all doses.
(12) Previous studies have indicated that suppression is mediated by "null cells" similar to natural suppressor (NS) cells (1), and have ruled out several possible trivial explanations for the suppressive effect.
(13) Since the biosynthetic route is similar to that of lipoxin A4 and lipoxin B4, we suggest the trivial names lipoxin C4, D4 and E4.
(14) This polysaccharide has been given the trivial name marginalan.
(15) Rupture of the bridging veins or the intratumoral abnormal vessels due to twisting of the brain from trivial head trauma or without trauma might produce subdural hematoma.
(16) Five patients had normal intracardiac hemodynamic values, 2 had trivial atrioventricular valve regurgitation and 1 patient had trivial pulmonary ventricular outflow tract obstruction.
(17) Six weeks later, two weeks after a trivial trauma with hyperextension of the shoulder joint, it was found that the catheter had broken and its tip portion had embolized into the pulmonary artery: it was retrieved without difficulty via the femoral vein.
(18) The results indicate that dichromatic and trichromatic monkeys differ only trivially on tests where performance is based on the contributions of non-opponent mechanisms, that the contribution of spectrally opponent mechanisms to the "brightness signal" is very similar in trichromatic and dichromatic monkeys, and that in increment-threshold discriminations where there are both chromaticity and luminance cues some test wavelengths yield superior performance for trichromats while others appear to favor the dichromat.
(19) Thus, the same tribunal that regularly consigns ordinary, powerless Americans to prison for decades for even trivial offenses yet again acts to protect the most powerful actors from any consequences for serious crimes: that is the US justice system in a nutshell.
(20) The appetite was selective as shown by the fact that when, after depletion, 0.34 M-CaCl2 was offered (which is equiosmotic to 3% NaCl) pigeons took just a trivial amount of it.
Unimportant
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The amount of EB or progesterone injected seemed unimportant but, in either case, had to be given within a limited diurnal period of sensitivity.
(2) For example, we hypothesize that competition can be unimportant even if it is very intense: no such hypothesis is possible unless importance is distinguished from intensity.
(3) A comparison of the time course of this time-locked response with that of the kernel prediction indicated that nonlinear temporal effects of order higher than two are unimportant.
(4) Nucleotide pyrophosphatases seem to play an unimportant role in guanylyl imidodiphosphate conversion, while alkaline phosphatase is possibly of more importance.
(5) Moreover, M1-muscarinic receptors appear to be relatively unimportant in mediating the effects of carbachol on short circuit current (ISC).
(6) Cl measured with each method exceeded Crs (p less than .05), but the magnitude was clinically unimportant.
(7) According to these results the acetylator phenotype seems to be an unimportant factor in therapy with dihydralazine.
(8) Snoring usually is trivial and unimportant, but it can turn into a social or medical problem.
(9) Analysis of this time delay as a function of the factor Xa concentration indicates that the gain of the feedback loop of factor V activation by thrombin is so high that the contribution of factor V activation by factor Xa is relatively unimportant for factor Xa concentrations in the nanomolar range.
(10) This is unusual, although clinically unimportant muscle involvement in trypanosomiasis has been described.
(11) But he is warm and sharp, and the punchlines begin to feel unimportant when the journey there is so much fun.
(12) Since this phenomenon is associated with high concentrations of contrast media in nonflowing blood, the high shear rate in arteries and arterioles make it unimportant in the in vivo situation.
(13) Didn't they realise how unimportant it all was, compared with what we'd been through?"
(14) The contribution made by cytotoxicity to the overall antiviral effect (measured by 24 h yield) was negligible in Flow 2002 cells, and was relatively unimportant in BHK cells.
(15) Safety was very satisfactory: patients complained only rarely of trivial and clinically unimportant side effects; no variations in laboratory tests were noted.
(16) Our results suggest that the osmotic and free-radical scavenging properties of hexoses are relatively unimportant in relation to their antiarrhythmic effects.
(17) Items loading on the first three factors were thought to be generally important, and those on the last three relatively unimportant.
(18) The basis of the program is a valid 'partial' statistical description of the EEG; that description is then used to produce a digital representation of a signal which, if plotted sequentially, might or might not by chance resemble an EEG, that is unimportant.
(19) The involvement of General Practitioners in the care of epilepsy was found to be small, but not unimportant.
(20) Pocket elimination by the use of surgical procedures (gingivectomy, flap operation with bone surgery) may be preferred in regions of the mouth where the aesthetic result is unimportant and where the removal of alveolar bone does not jeopardize the periodontal support of neighbouring teeth.