3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Auxiliary \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Auxiliary \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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
auxiliary
adj 1: functioning in a subsidiary or supporting capacity; "the
main library and its auxiliary branches" [syn: {subsidiary},
{supplemental}, {supplementary}]
2: 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" [syn: {accessory}, {adjunct}, {ancillary}, {adjuvant},
{appurtenant}, {subsidiary}]
n : someone who acts as assistant [syn: {aide}]
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