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 ## Definitions
 
 ##### <a name="oasDocument"></a>OpenAPI Description
-A document (or set of documents) that describes an API. An OpenAPI Description (OAD) uses and conforms to the OpenAPI Specification, and MUST contain at least one [paths](#pathsObject) field, [components](#oasComponents) field, or [webhooks](#oasWebhooks) field.
+An OpenAPI Description (OAD) formally describes the surface of an API and its semantics. It is composed of an [entry document](#documentStructure) and any/all of its referenced documents. An OAD uses and conforms to the OpenAPI Specification, and MUST contain at least one [paths](#pathsObject) field, [components](#oasComponents) field, or [webhooks](#oasWebhooks) field.
 
 ##### <a name="pathTemplating"></a>Path Templating
-Path templating refers to the usage of template expressions, delimited by curly braces ({}), to mark a section of a URL path as replaceable using path parameters.
+Path templating refers to the usage of template expressions, delimited by curly braces (`{}`), to mark a section of a URL path as replaceable using path parameters.
 
 Each template expression in the path MUST correspond to a path parameter that is included in the [Path Item](#path-item-object) itself and/or in each of the Path Item's [Operations](#operation-object). An exception is if the path item is empty, for example due to ACL constraints, matching path parameters are not required.