"according as" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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          "ref": "1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.20",
          "text": "Ethical theories may be divided into two classes, according as they regard virtue as an end or a means.",
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          "ref": "1965, Lotfi A. Zadeh, Fuzzy Sets",
          "text": "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.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Precisely as; the same as; just as; corresponding to the way in which. (Now often expressing accordance with two or more alternatives.)"
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          "Precisely",
          "precisely"
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          "just as",
          "just as"
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          "_dis1": "99 0 1",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "precisely as",
          "word": "zoals"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 0 1",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "precisely as",
          "word": "volgens"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 0 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "precisely as",
          "word": "selon que"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 0 1",
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "precisely as",
          "word": "tuỳ theo"
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      "glosses": [
        "To the proportion or degree that."
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        "Depending on whether."
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  "word": "according as"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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          "ref": "1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.20",
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          "just as",
          "just as"
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "To the proportion or degree that."
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    {
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        "Depending on whether."
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "precisely as",
      "word": "zoals"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "precisely as",
      "word": "volgens"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "precisely as",
      "word": "selon que"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "precisely as",
      "word": "tuỳ theo"
    }
  ],
  "word": "according as"
}