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@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ For detailed information on the specific features of your module, see the chapte
 == Core concepts
 
 The central interface in the Spring Data repository abstraction is `Repository`.
-It takes the domain class to manage as well as the ID type of the domain class as type arguments.
+It takes the domain class to manage as well as the identifier type of the domain class as type arguments.
 This interface acts primarily as a marker interface to capture the types to work with and to help you to discover interfaces that extend this one.
 The https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/commons/docs/current/api/org/springframework/data/repository/CrudRepository.html[`CrudRepository`] and https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/commons/docs/current/api/org/springframework/data/repository/ListCrudRepository.html[`ListCrudRepository`] interfaces provide sophisticated CRUD functionality for the entity class that is being managed.
 
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ public interface CrudRepository<T, ID> extends Repository<T, ID> {
 <6> Indicates whether an entity with the given ID exists.
 ====
 
+The methods declared in this interface are commonly referred to as CRUD methods.
 `ListCrudRepository` offers equivalent methods, but they return `List` where the `CrudRepository` methods return an `Iterable`.
 
 NOTE: We also provide persistence technology-specific abstractions, such as `JpaRepository` or `MongoRepository`.