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Definitions of 'auxiliary' Wordnet 

1. (adj) aide, auxiliary
someone who acts as assistant

2. (adj) auxiliary, subsidiary, supplemental, supplementary
functioning in a supporting capacity
"the main library and its auxiliary branches"

3. (adj) accessory, adjunct, ancillary, adjuvant, appurtenant, auxiliary
furnishing added support
"an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxiliary to each other"


Definitions of 'auxiliary' Webster 1913 Dictionary 

1. (adj) auxiliary
conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops

2. (noun) auxiliary
a helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise

3. (noun) auxiliary
foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or subsidiary force

4.  auxiliary
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; etre and avoir, in French; avere and essere, in Italian; estar and haber, in Spanish

5.  auxiliary
a quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical formulae


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