auxiliary

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1. auxiliary - Noun

2. auxiliary - Adjective

4. auxiliary - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops.

A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise.

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

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.

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

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an ancillary pump Source: Internet

an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism Source: Internet

The mind and emotions are auxiliary to each other Source: Internet

the main library and its auxiliary branches Source: Internet

5 is a common auxiliary base, or sub-base, where 6 is 'five and one', 7 'five and two', etc. Aztec was a vigesimal (base-20) system with sub-base 5. 6: senary main The Morehead-Maro languages of Southern New Guinea are examples of the rare base 6 system. Source: Internet

About 300 semi-submersible drilling and auxiliary platforms operate at sea. Source: Internet

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