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AUXILIARY OPERATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A operation performed by off-line equipment not under the control of the central processing unit
Synonyms:
auxiliary operation; off-line operation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
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))