AUXILIARY OPERATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does auxiliary operation mean? 

• AUXILIARY OPERATION (noun)
  The noun AUXILIARY OPERATION has 1 sense:

1. a operation performed by off-line equipment not under the control of the central processing unit

  Familiarity information: AUXILIARY OPERATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUXILIARY OPERATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A operation performed by off-line equipment not under the control of the central processing unit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

auxiliary operation; off-line operation

Hypernyms ("auxiliary operation" is a kind of...):

operation ((computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction))