The tundra biome. Tundra is the coldest of all the biomes. Tundra comes from the Finnish word tunturi, meaning treeless plain. It is noted for its frost-molded landscapes, extremely low temperatures, little precipitation, poor nutrients, and short growing seasons. Dead organic material functions as a nutrient pool.
Full Definition of TRANSCENDENTALISM. 1. : a philosophy that emphasizes the a priori conditions of knowledge and experience or the unknowable character of ultimate reality or that emphasizes the transcendent as the fundamental reality.2.: a philosophy that asserts the primacy of the spiritual and transcendental over the material and empirical. 3.: the quality or state of being transcendental; especially: visionary idealism. â tranÂ·scenÂ·denÂ·talÂ·ist \-tÉ-list\ adjective or noun. See transcendentalism defined for English-language learners.. : a philosophy that emphasizes the a priori conditions of knowledge and experience or the unknowable character of ultimate reality or that emphasizes the transcendent as the fundamental reality. 2. : a philosophy that asserts the primacy of the spiritual and transcendental over the material and empirical.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. In philosophy, the adjective transcendental and the noun transcendence convey the basic ground concept from the word's literal meaning (from Latin), of climbing or going beyond, albeit with varying connotations in its different historical and cultural stages.e also equated transcendental with that which is ...in respect of the subject's faculty of cognition.. Something is transcendental if it plays a role in the way in which the mind constitutes objects and makes it possible for us to experience them as objects in the first place.