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English Dictionary: auxiliary	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for auxiliary
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
auxiliary adj functioning in a supporting capacity; "the main library and its auxiliary branches" Synonym(s): auxiliary, subsidiary, supplemental, supplementary furnishing added support; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxiliary to each other" Synonym(s): accessory, adjunct, ancillary, adjuvant, appurtenant, auxiliary n someone who acts as assistant Synonym(s): aide, auxiliary
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Auxiliary \Auxil"iary\ (?; 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Auxiliary \Auxil"iary\, 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; [88]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[91]. --Math. Dict.