a. | 1. | Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops.
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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 | |||||||
3. | (Gram.) A verb which helps to form the voices, modes, and tenses of other verbs; - called, also, an | |||||||
4. | (Math.) A quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical formulæ. |
Noun | 1. | auxiliary - someone who acts as assistant Synonyms: aide |
Adj. | 1. | auxiliary - functioning in a subsidiary or supporting capacity; "the main library and its auxiliary branches" |
2. | auxiliary - 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" |