Transcendental



GRE Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• adj.超越经验的
• ［英］ adj.超越经验的 ( being beyond the limits of all possible experience and knowledge)

Webster Collegiate

adjective

• Date: 1624
• 1.
  • a. transcendent 1b
  • b. supernatural
  • c. abstruse, abstract
  • d. of or relating to transcendentalism
• 2.
  • a. incapable of being the root of an algebraic equation with rational coefficients <π is a transcendental number>
  • b. being, involving, or representing a function (as sin x, log x, e［sup］x［/sup］) that cannot be expressed by a finite number of algebraic operations <transcendental curves>
• 3. in Kantian philosophy
  • a. of or relating to experience as determined by the mind's makeup
  • b. transcending experience but not human knowledge
• 4. transcendent 1a
• ? transcendentally adverb

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