Hypertext Webster Gateway: "whereby"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Whereby \Where*by"\, adv.
1. By which; -- used relatively. ``You take my life when you
take the means whereby I life.'' --Shak.
2. By what; how; -- used interrogatively.
Whereby shall I know this? --Luke i. 18.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
whereby
adv 1: as a result of which
2: by or through which; "the means whereby we achieved our
goal"
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