diff --git a/source/reference/glossary.txt b/source/reference/glossary.txt index e418af796e1..dd17af5a07d 100644 --- a/source/reference/glossary.txt +++ b/source/reference/glossary.txt @@ -769,9 +769,9 @@ Glossary information. namespace - A canonical name for a collection or index in MongoDB. - Namespaces consist of a concatenation of the database and - collection or index name, like so: + The canonical name for a collection or index in MongoDB. + The namespace is a combination of the database name and + the name of the collection or index, like so: ``[database-name].[collection-or-index-name]``. All documents belong to a namespace.