Definition of "according as"

according as

adverb
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.)
  Quotations
  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 Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene ii]
  The land which the Lord will give you according as he hath promised.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Exodus 12:25
  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 fA(x) = 1 or 0 according as x does or does not belong to A.
  1965, Lotfi A. Zadeh, Fuzzy Sets‎
2. To the proportion or degree that.
3. Depending on whether.