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Sep 27, 2016 10:15
7 yrs ago
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English term

a.m. drawing

English Tech/Engineering Electronics / Elect Eng
Can anyone help me with the above term. It is in the instruction manual of a scraper for industrial machines manufacturing paper reels.

Context:

"ELECTRICAL AND PNEUMATIC WIRING
All necessary diagrams are supplied together with the attachment at the end of this book. The connections must be carried out in accordance to a.m. drawings."

Thank you in advance.
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5 +8 above-mentioned drawing

Discussion

Tony M Sep 27, 2016:
@ Asker Aha! That explains everything then!
Tamas Elek (asker) Sep 27, 2016:
I think it was translated from Italian into English, and I need to translate the English text into Hungarian.
Tony M Sep 27, 2016:
@ Asker Do you have any idea of the provenance of this document? I am suspecting that this 'a.m.' might well be a left-over from another language (German?) They do have a tendency to use abbreviations like this tucked into running text where in EN we'd usually spell it out in full (cf. 'bzw' as a very common example!). I can't offhand think of any appropriate EN expression that would fit here.

And the incorrect 'in accordance to' is a BIG clue that this might not have started off in EN ;-)

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+8
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above-mentioned drawing

a.m. usually refers to someting already referred to in the foregoing text. It can also be translated as "foregoing", but that is more usual in legal texts.
Peer comment(s):
agree Tony M : Here, it would probably be more appropriate to say 'aforementioned', since it is so close, and hence hardly really 'above'; in fact, it might be even more natural to simply say 'said drawings' or even 'these drawings'.
7 mins
agree Sheila Wilson : Highly likely in the context. Although I do agree with Tony that it simply needs to read "these drawings"
8 mins
agree Yasutomo Kanazawa
14 mins
agree Veronika McLaren : Quite likely!
1 hr
agree Lingua 5B
8 hrs
agree acetran
13 hrs
agree Phong Le
17 hrs
agree Henk Sanderson
2 days 5 hrs
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