transcendental
noun
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A transcendentalist.
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(Platonism, Christian theology, usually in the plural) Any one of the three transcendental properties of being: truth, beauty or goodness, which respectively are the ideals of science, art and religion and the principal subjects of the study of logic, aesthetics and ethics.
adjective
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Concerned with the a priori or intuitive basis of knowledge, independent of experience.
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Superior; surpassing all others; extraordinary; transcendent.
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Mystical or supernatural.
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(of a number or an element of an extension field) Not algebraic (i.e., not the root of any polynomial that has positive degree and rational coefficients).
- 5
(of an extension field) That contains elements that are not algebraic.
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