Doesn't "as" stand for a temporal relation: https://www.google.com/search?q=define+as https://www.google.com/search?q=define+as "Because" would be casual, in m

Doesn't "as" stand for a temporal relation: https://www.google.com/search?q=define+as https://www.google.com/search?q=define+as "Because" would be casual, in my book.