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Definitions for: Auxiliary
[n] someone who acts as assistant
[adj] functioning in a subsidiary or supporting capacity; "the main library and its auxiliary branches"
[adj] relating to something that is added but is not essential; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxilliary to each other"
Webster (1913) Definition: Aux*il"ia*ry (?; 106), a. [L. auxiliarius, fr.
auxilium help, aid, fr. augere to increase.]
Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting;
subsidiary; as auxiliary troops.
Auxiliary scales (Mus.), the scales of relative or
attendant keys. See under Attendant, a.
Auxiliary verbs (Gram.). See Auxiliary, n., 3.
Aux*il"ia*ry, n.; pl. Auxiliaries.
1. A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or
enterprise.
2. (Mil.) pl. Foreign troops in the service of a nation at
war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or
subsidiary force.
3. (Gram.) A verb which helps to form the voices, modes, and
tenses of other verbs; -- called, also, an auxiliary verb;
as, have, be, may, can, do, must, shall, and will, in
English; [^e]tre and avoir, in French; avere and essere,
in Italian; estar and haber, in Spanish.
4. (Math.) A quantity introduced for the purpose of
simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in
equations or trigonometrical formul[ae]. --Math. Dict.
Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, adjuvant, aide, ancillary, appurtenant, secondary, subsidiary, supplemental, supplementary, supportive
See Also: assistant, help, helper, nurse's aide, nursing aide, supporter
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