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according as

according as adverb: precisely as; the same as; just as; corresponding to the way in which. (Now often expressing accordance with two or more alternatives.).

Adverb

according as (not comparable)

  1. Precisely as; the same as; just as; corresponding to the way in which. (Now often expressing accordance with two or more alternatives.)
    • Is all things well, According as I gave directions?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...
    • The land which the Lord will give you according as he hath promised.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 12:25
  2. To the proportion or degree that.
  3. Depending on whether.

according as meaning in Tamil and Vietnamese

according as in Tamil

ஒத்திசைய

according as in Vietnamese

precisely as
tuỳ theo

Examples of according as in a sentence

  • Ethical theories may be divided into two classes, according as they regard virtue as an end or a means.1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.20:
  • 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.1965, Lotfi A. Zadeh, Fuzzy Sets:

Questions about according as

What does according as mean?
According as means precisely as; the same as; just as; corresponding to the way in which. (Now often expressing accordance with two or more alternatives.).
What is according as in Tamil?
According as in Tamil is ஒத்திசைய. See According as meaning in Tamil.
How do you use according as in a sentence?
Ethical theories may be divided into two classes, according as they regard virtue as an end or a means.
What part of speech is according as?
According as is an adverb.

Words near according as in the dictionary

  1. accordest
  2. accordeth
  3. accordian
  4. accordin'
  5. according
  6. according as
  7. according to
  8. according to Cocker
  9. according to Gunter
  10. according to Hoyle
  11. according to one's lights

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Adapted from Wiktionary: according as (page history and authors); according as (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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