avlästs

Avlästs is a Swedish term primarily used as the past participle form of the verb avläsa, meaning to read off or to extract information from a source. In technical, administrative, and archival Swedish, avläsa is used when data values are obtained by reading from a device, document, or log, and avlästs can appear in formal contexts to indicate that such data have been read. The more common inflected forms in everyday usage are avläst (singular) and avlästa (plural). The form avlästs emerges in certain formal or older-style constructions and is less frequent in contemporary prose.

Etymology and related forms: avlästs is built from the prefix av- plus läsa, with the related noun avläsning referring to the act or result of reading from a source. The overarching idea is “the read-out” or “the reading that has been taken from a source,” such as a meter or a log.

Usage and contexts: The term is most often found in Nordic technical writings, data-logging reports, utility documentation, and archival descriptions where measurements or textual data are explicitly described as having been read from a source. It functions to mark completed data collection or extraction in a passive or adjectival sense, though in practice avläst/avlästa are more common.

See also: avläsning, avläsa, meter reading, data extraction.Notes and references are typically drawn from Swedish dictionaries and corpora that cover technical and administrative language.