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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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