according as

English

Adverb

according as (not comparable)

1. Precisely as; the same 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?

   • (Can we date this quote?) 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 f_A(x) = 1 or 0 according as x does or does not belong to A.

2. To the proportion or degree that.
3. Depending on whether.

Translations

precisely as

• Dutch: zoals (nl), volgens (nl)
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• French: selon que (fr)
• Vietnamese: tuỳ theo (vi)