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according to meaning

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  • Preposition
    1. IDI Based on what is said or stated by; on the authority of.
      1. In a manner conforming or corresponding to; in proportion.
        1. Depending on.
        2. More Examples
          1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
            • Everything was going according to plan until we ran into the legal problems.
            • A new state constitutional convention could not limit individual liberties, according to the proconvention group Con Con for Court Reform.
            • We then classify the MNIST digits according to the magnitude of their dogness, horseness, planeness and carness qualities, illustrating the generality of qualitative projection.
          2. Used in the Beginning of Sentence
            • According to Whitlon et al. 2007 they were classified into following groups: monopolar, bipolar, multipolar, pseudomonopolar and no neurites [50 ].
            • According to experts, a single line of text should rarely exceed about 50 characters (including letters and all the spaces between words).
            • According to archeozoological and genetic data, goats were domesticated some 10 000 years ago in the geographical region that spans from Eastern Anatolia to the Zagros Mountains in Northern Iran.

        Meaning of according to for the defined word.

        Grammatically, this idiom "according to" is a preposition.
        • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
          1. Prepositions
          Definiteness: Level 8
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          1. en according to plan
          2. en according to Hoyle
          3. en according to one's understanding
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