As influenced by

Hi,

I found this defintion online. Why is “as” used in “as influenced by”? I can’t seem to understand which meaning of the word as is used.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/connected with https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/political https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/activity as https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/influence by the https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/physical https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/feature of a https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/country or https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/area, or with the https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/study of the way a country's https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/size, https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/position, etc. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/influence https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/its https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/power and https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/its https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/relationship with other https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/country.

thanks