Found 3 items, similar to Auxiliaries.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: auxiliary
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: auxiliary
auxiliary
n : someone who acts as assistant [syn:
aide]
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]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Auxiliaries
Auxiliary
\Aux*il"ia*ry\, n.; pl.
Auxiliaries.
1. A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or
enterprise.
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2. (Mil.) pl. Foreign troops in the service of a nation at
war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or
subsidiary force.
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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.
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4. (Math.) A quantity introduced for the purpose of
simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in
equations or trigonometrical formul[ae]. --Math. Dict.
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