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1 definition found 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.
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