Meaning & use
transcendental
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Going beyond ordinary physical experience or human understanding, especially in a spiritual or abstract sense.
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The monk described a transcendental sense of peace during deep meditation.
Transcendental meditation aims to help practitioners rise above everyday thought.
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In mathematics, "transcendental" has a technical meaning too, describing numbers (like pi) that are not the root of any polynomial equation with rational coefficients.
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