diff --git a/reference/array/functions/array-map.xml b/reference/array/functions/array-map.xml
index fc2eea2421cd..02c8ef0737aa 100644
--- a/reference/array/functions/array-map.xml
+++ b/reference/array/functions/array-map.xml
@@ -41,7 +41,8 @@
       <para>
        &null; can be passed as a value to <parameter>callback</parameter>
        to perform a zip operation on multiple arrays and return an array
-       whose elements are each an array holding the elements of the input arrays of the same index (see example below).
+       whose elements are each an array holding the elements of the input arrays of the
+       same position of the internal array pointer (see example below).
        If only <parameter>array</parameter> is provided,
        <methodname>array_map</methodname> will return the input array.
       </para>