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   transcendental

   /ˌtrans(ɛ)nˈdɛntl/

   adjective

   • 1. relating to a spiritual realm: "the transcendental importance of each person's soul"
   • ▪ relating to or denoting Transcendentalism.
   • 2. (in Kantian philosophy) presupposed in and necessary to experience; a priori.
   • 3. (of a number, e.g. e or π) real but not a root of an algebraic equation with rational coefficients.
   • ▪ (of a function) not capable of being produced by the algebraical operations of addition, multiplication, and involution, or the inverse operations.

   Word Origin early 17th century: from medieval Latin transcendentalis (see transcendent).

   Derivatives

   • 1. transcendentally adverb

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