Transcendental
- (philosophy) Concerned with the a priori or intuitive basis of knowledge, independent of experience.
- Superior; surpassing all others; extraordinary; transcendent.
- Mystical or supernatural.
- (algebra, number theory, field theory, of a number or an element of an extension field) Not algebraic (i.e., not the root of any polynomial that has positive degree and rational coefficients).
- (algebra, field theory, of an extension field) That contains elements that are not algebraic.
Antonyms
- (not the root of a polynomial with rational coefficients): algebraic
- (containing elements that are not the root of a polynomial): algebraic