transcendental

transcendental [tran΄sen dent′'l]

adj.

[ML transcendentalis]

1.

a) TRANSCENDENT (sense 1)

b) SUPERNATURAL

2. abstract; metaphysical

3. of or having to do with transcendentalism

4. in Kantian philosophy, based on those elements of experience which derive not from sense data but from the inherent organizing function of the mind, and which are the necessary conditions of human knowledge; transcending sense experience but not knowledge

5. Math.

a) not capable of being a root of any algebraic equation with rational coefficients

b) of, pertaining to, or being a function, as a logarithm, trigonometric function, exponential, etc., that is not expressible algebraically in terms of the variables and constants: opposed to ALGEBRAIC, sense 2)

transcendentally

adv.