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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
transcendental
 
SYLLABICATION:tran·scen·den·tal
PRONUNCIATION:  trnsn-dntl
ADJECTIVE:1. Philosophy a. Concerned with the a priori or intuitive basis of knowledge as independent of experience. b. Asserting a fundamental irrationality or supernatural element in experience. 2. Surpassing all others; superior. 3. Beyond common thought or experience; mystical or supernatural. 4. Mathematics Of or relating to a real or complex number that is not the root of any polynomial that has positive degree and rational coefficients.
OTHER FORMS:transcen·dental·lyADVERB
 
 
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