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a.m. drawing

English translation: above-mentioned drawing

10:15 Sep 27, 2016
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Electronics / Elect Eng
English term or phrase: a.m. drawing
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.
Tamas Elek
Hungary
Local time: 22:59
Selected answer:above-mentioned drawing
Explanation:
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.
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Anne Maclennan
Local time: 22:59
Grading comment
Thank you.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



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5 +8above-mentioned drawing
Anne Maclennan


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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +8
above-mentioned drawing


Explanation:
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.

Anne Maclennan
Local time: 22:59
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thank you.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
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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