Transcendence

Transcendence, transcendent, and transcendental are words that refer to an object (or a property of an object) as being comparatively beyond that of other objects. Such objects (or properties) transcend other objects (or properties) in some way.

Religion

• Transcendence (religion), the concept of being entirely beyond the universe.
• Transcendentals, religious and philosophical properties of being.
• Salvation, the human transcendence of death.

Mathematics

• Transcendental number, a number that is not the root of any polynomial with rational coefficients
• Transcendental element, an element of a field extension that is not the root of any polynomial with coefficients from the base field
• Transcendental function, a function which does not satisfy a polynomial equation whose coefficients are themselves polynomials
• Transcendence theory, the branch of mathematics dealing with transcendental numbers and algebraic independenece

Philosophy

• Transcendence (philosophy), climbing or going beyond some philosophical concept or limit
• Transcendentalism, a 19th-century American religious and philosophical movement that advocates that there is an ideal spiritual state that 'transcends' the physical and empirical
• Transcendent theosophy, a school of Islamic philosophy founded by the 17th-century Persian philosopher Mulla Sadra
• Transcendental perspectivism, a philosophy blending perspectivism and transcendentalism
• Transcendental idealism, a doctrine founded by 18th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant
• Transcendental Meditation, a Vedic meditation technique introduced by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
• Transcendental Phenomenology, a field of phenomenological inquiry developed by Edmund Husserl.
• Transcendentals, religious and philosophical properties of being.

Other uses

• Transcendence (novel), a novel by Charles Sheffield
• Transcendent (novel), a science-fiction novel by Stephen Baxter
• Transcendence (novel), a fantasy novel by R.A. Salvatore
• Transcendence (video game), a science-fiction game by George Moromisato.
• Transcendence (Alice Coltrane album), a jazz album by Alice Coltrane
• Transcendence (Crimson Glory album), a heavy metal album by Crimson Glory
• Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race, the longest foot race in the world.
• Transcendence (Segue), an instrumental by progressive metal band Symphony X, from their 2000 album V: The New Mythology Suite
• Transcendental Students, an anarchist student activist group from New York
• Transcendental, an album by UK band To-Mera
• Transcendental Etudes, a series of twelve compositions written for solo piano by Franz Liszt
• Transcendental Aircraft Corporation, founded in 1945 to research tilt-rotor aircraft
• Transcendental Sigil Stone, in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, the highest level of sigil stone available from closing a Gate of Oblivion