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Having no experience with this kind of thing, all I can do is offer
suggestions:
(1) Use RefDes(es)' when the word you're referring to might be plural.
(2) Word your document(s) so that you never have to use 'RefDes' in a
plural sense, and develop this as a standard convention in your company.
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In my document (for circuit board designers) we reference an item
called a
reference designator. It is common standard terminology to refer to
this as
a RefDes. So, the question becomes, how do I refer to more than one of
these? RefDes.... I don't even know ...
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