_("string") in django models

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Hi,
Just saw this on the internet :

class Name(models.Model):
    amount = models.FloatField(_("Amount"), null=False, blank=False)

i was wondering what this ‘_(“Amount”)’ does?

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The underscore is a valid python identifier.

If you saw that line written as:

How would you interpret it? (What would the abc represent?)

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