transcendental
/ˌtrænsenˈdentəl/adjective
1
- of or relating to a spiritual or non-physical realm（与）精神的或非物质领域（有关）的：
the transcendental importance of each person's soul
个人灵魂的精神上的重要性。
1.1
- (in Kantian philosophy) presupposed in and necessary to experience; a priori（康德哲学）预先存在于经验的; 先验的, 超验的。
1.2
- relating to or denoting Transcendentalism超验主义的。
2
- Mathematics (of a number, e.g. e or π) real but not a root of an algebraic equation with rational roots【数】（e, π等数字）超越的。
2.1
- (of a function) not capable of being produced by the algebraical operations of addition, multiplication, and involution, or the inverse operations（函数）超越的。
派生词
transcendentalize
（亦作-ise）verbtranscendentally
adverb词源
early 17th cent.: from medieval Latin transcendentalis （see TRANSCENDENT）.