Auxiliary

a.	1.	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.
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.

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" Synonyms: supplemental, supplementary, subsidiary
	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" Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, adjuvant, ancillary, appurtenant, subsidiary

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