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French term or phrase:	amonts
English translation:	upstream
Entered by:	Rebecca Lowery

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07:23 Oct 6, 2004

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Engineering (general)

French term or phrase: amonts

Talking about related documents to the document I'm translating.
In a table "Document(s), Amont(s)"

Rebecca Lowery KudoZ activity Questions: 74 (none open) (1 without valid answers) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 150 United Kingdom
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upstream

Explanation:
I believe the final 's' to be an error. I'm fairly sure it refers to documents relating to processes earlier than the one your document is referring to.

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Perhaps an example is in order.
If the \"current\" document is a tender specification, \"upstream\" documents might include drawings, design notes and so on.

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David Goward
France
Local time: 23:36

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upstream

David Goward

preliminaries

xxxBourth

higher-level documents

Oliver Walter

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upstream

David Goward
France
Local time: 23:36
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Thanks!

2 hrs confidence:

preliminaries

Explanation:
"upstream" does not work well in situations like this, IMO. "Upline" might work better, but even then it's not always great.

Do you not think the intermediate comma might be wrong, that it should read "document(s) amont(s)"? In which case "prior document(s)".

xxxBourth
Local time: 23:36
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PRO pts in category: 1054

3 days7 hrs confidence:

higher-level documents

Explanation:
If the document containing this table is in a hierarchy with, for example, a requirement specification at the top, and design requirements below that, and design specifications below that, I would feel happy to use "higher-level documents" to indicate those higher up the hierarchy and of course "lower-level" if there's an "aval" column, but there probably isn't as those docs probably don't yet exist.

Oliver Walter
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PRO pts in category: 17

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