transcendental

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more transcendental

Superlative

most transcendental

1.
Synonym of transcendent (“surpassing usual limits; excelling; extraordinary”).
Đồng nghĩa: surpassing, transcendent
2.
In the philosophy of Aristotle (384–322 B.C.E.): synonym of transcendent (“transcending or extending beyond a single category”); also, synonym of metaphysical (“of or relating to the basic structure of reality”).
3.
In the philosophy of Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) or similar philosophies: concerned with the a priori or intuitive basis of knowledge, independent of experience.
4.
In the philosophy associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882): of or relating to transcendentalism (“a philosophy which stresses intuition and spirituality”).
5.
(broadly)Beyond one's ordinary experience; extraordinary.
6.
(broadly)Existing in the imagination; abstract, conceptual.
7.
(broadly)Mystical, superhuman, supernatural.
Đồng nghĩa: superrational
8.
Of an element of an extension field: not algebraic, that is, not the root of any polynomial that has positive degree and rational coefficients; also, of an extension field: that contains elements which are not algebraic.
9.
Of a function or number: not algebraic.
The numbers e and #92;pi are transcendental—written as decimals, the numbers after the decimal point continue infinitely and do not enter a permanently repeating pattern.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

transcendentals

1.
A thing which is transcendental (all adjective senses).
2.
(obsolete)Synonym of transcendentalist (“one who believes in transcendentalism; a philosopher who asserts that true knowledge is obtained by faculties of the mind that transcend sensory experience”).
Đồng nghĩa: transcendentalist

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Đồng nghĩa

surpassing transcendent superrational transcendentalist

Trái nghĩa

algebraic

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ine-pro The adjective is a transcendentālis + English -al. Transcendentālis is derived from Latin trānscendentem + ‑ālis; and trānscendentem is the accusative singular form of trānscendēns (exceeding, surpassing, transcending), the present active participle of trānscendō, from trāns- (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *terh₂- (to cross over; to overcome;