Auxiliary
Definition of Auxiliary
Aux`il´ia`ry | a. | 1. | Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops.| Auxiliary verbs | | (Gram.) See Auxiliary, n., 3. |
| | n. | 1. | A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise. | | 2. | (Mil.) 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; être 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 formulæ. |
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