[
UK
/ɔːksˈɪliəɹi/
]
[ US /ɑɡˈzɪɫiɛɹi, ɑɡˈzɪɫjɝi/ ]
[ US /ɑɡˈzɪɫiɛɹi, ɑɡˈzɪɫjɝi/ ]
NOUN
- someone who acts as assistant
ADJECTIVE
-
furnishing added support
an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism
The mind and emotions are auxiliary to each other
an ancillary pump -
functioning in a supporting capacity
the main library and its auxiliary branches
How To Use auxiliary In A Sentence
- The ships of several passenger and mail lines were also purchased, or leased as auxiliary cruisers, and were at once remanned and put in commission. Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom
- This product uses the gingko extraction. auxiliary by stable synergist.
- This produced no immediate effect; he then got a small bundle of different kinds of medicinal woods, and, burning them in a potsherd nearly to ashes, used the smoke and hot vapor arising from them as an auxiliary to the other in causing diaphoresis. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
- With the _f_, the tone must be there already, _before_ I have pronounced it; to pass from the _f_ to the _r_ I must summon to my aid the auxiliary vowel _oo_, in order to prevent the formation of any unvocalized interstices in the sound. How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst]
- The armed forces number 18,500 men divided into an infantry, a navy, an air force, paramilitary forces, border guards, and auxiliary troops of the Interior Ministry.
- The flow rates and pressure of the auxiliary hydraulics play a key role in the performance of the attachments.
- Every communication channel should be considered an auxiliary to, or an amplification of, our intelligence.
- The final ship of the Fleet's four new auxiliary landing ships will take to the water in a couple of the months as the revolution in the RN's amphibious forces reaches its final stages.
- Science and technology are auxiliary to each other.
- Parents sometimes add rear-mounted child seats and/or an auxiliary saddle fitted to the crossbar to transport children.