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auxiliary equipment

n. electronic equipment not in direct communication (or under the control of) the central processing unit [syn: off-line equipment]

Usage examples of "auxiliary equipment".

The engines and auxiliary equipment worked on a level below mechanical motion, on a level of pure force, as electrical transformers do.

It was obvious that the California had been gripped by a braking force of such magnitude that the power demand of the neutralizers could not be handled by the auxiliary equipment alone.

The three spaceboats normally carried by a Twelfth Fleet cruiser of the Vulpecula class were absent and the entire compartment was now dedicated to ten 600X CE enhancers, their auxiliary equipment, and their bulky power supply.

It is the preparation of the list of weapons and auxiliary equipment desired for purchase.

Behind them were the two protective screen generators for sector A and then a long row of auxiliary equipment.

There was another box with a screen and controls, along with an opened case of papers, pieces of auxiliary equipment, and other oddments in front of the younger Hyadean.

But while the converter does not care, all of the torch's auxiliary equipment is built to handle fluid, preferably water.

Aft, officers and men assumed their positions as different as the Missile Control Center - MCC - which monitored the status of Maine's twenty-four Trident missiles, and the auxiliary equipment room, which was mainly concerned with the ship's backup diesel engine.

Doubling acceleration would have cut danger time by half and made the Sisu as agile as a raiderbut it would have meant a hydrogen-fission chamber eight times as big with parallel increases in radiation shielding, auxiliary equipment, and paramagnetic capsule to contain the hydrogen reaction.

Doubling acceleration would have cut danger time by half and made the Sisu as agile as a raider -- but it would have meant a hydrogen-fission chamber eight times as big with parallel increase in radiation shielding, auxiliary equipment, and paramagnetic capsule to contain the hydrogen reaction.