transcendental

  1. Noun.  (obsolete) A transcendentalist.
  2. Adjective.  (philosophy) Concerned with the a priori or intuitive basis of knowledge, independent of experience.
  3. Adjective.  Superior, surpassing all others.
  4. Adjective.  Extraordinary.
  5. Adjective.  Mystical or supernatural.
  6. Adjective.  (mathematics, number theory) Of, or relating to a number that is not the root of any polynomial that has positive degree and rational coefficients.

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