Definition of transcendental
adjective
1relating 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 Mathematics (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.
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