diff --git a/doc/classes/String.xml b/doc/classes/String.xml
index 143e1f23e9e..792cd387415 100644
--- a/doc/classes/String.xml
+++ b/doc/classes/String.xml
@@ -529,7 +529,7 @@
 			<return type="bool" />
 			<param index="0" name="expr" type="String" />
 			<description>
-				Does a simple expression match, where [code]*[/code] matches zero or more arbitrary characters and [code]?[/code] matches any single character except a period ([code].[/code]). An empty string or empty expression always evaluates to [code]false[/code].
+				Does a simple expression match (also called "glob" or "globbing"), where [code]*[/code] matches zero or more arbitrary characters and [code]?[/code] matches any single character except a period ([code].[/code]). An empty string or empty expression always evaluates to [code]false[/code].
 			</description>
 		</method>
 		<method name="matchn" qualifiers="const">