auxiliary

[Aux*ilĀ·ia*ry]

When you're offering something in support of an already existing thing, you're offering something auxiliary. The auxiliary police will help out the regular police with things like directing traffic and crowd control when there's a special event in town.

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

Noun
someone who acts as assistant

Adjective S.
functioning in a subsidiary or supporting capacity; "the main library and its auxiliary branches"

Adjective S.
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"


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

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

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

sing.
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.

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


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.

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; '88tre 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'91. Math. Dict.

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

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

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Usage Examples

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

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