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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun 1. One who is joined or associated with another as a helper; an adjunct.
  • noun In France, specifically — An assistant of or substitute for the mayor of a commune, or in Paris of an arrondissement. An assistant professor in a college.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete An adjunct; a helper.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective mathematics used in several situations with a meaning similar to helping
  • noun mathematics A matrix in which each element is the cofactor of an associated element of another matrix.
  • noun An assistant mayor of a French commune

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