diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
index 24f7185aa18..cb20a5c75c3 100644
--- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Windows.
 
 .. note::
 
-    Functionality within this package requires that the ``__main__`` method be
+    Functionality within this package requires that the ``__main__`` module be
     importable by the children. This is covered in :ref:`multiprocessing-programming`
     however it is worth pointing out here. This means that some examples, such
     as the :class:`multiprocessing.Pool` examples will not work in the