according as
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Adverb
according as (not comparable)
- Precisely as; the same as; just as; corresponding to the way in which. (Now often expressing accordance with two or more alternatives.) [from 16th c.]
- 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
- Is all things well, According as I gave directions?
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 12:25:
- The land which the Lord will give you according as he hath promised.
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.20:
- Ethical theories may be divided into two classes, according as they regard virtue as an end or a means.
- 1965, Lotfi A. Zadeh, Fuzzy Sets:
- When A is a set in the ordinary sense of the term, its membership function can take on only two values 0 and 1, with fA(x) = 1 or 0 according as x does or does not belong to A.
- To the proportion or degree that.
- Depending on whether.
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