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 ## Example
 
 Here we walk through a hypothetical example of setting up a materialized view, to illustrate
-what this library offers. The core of the incremental view maintenance is a UDTF, called `file_dependencies`, that
+what this library offers. The core of the incremental view maintenance is a UDTF (User-Defined Table Function), called `file_dependencies`, that
 outputs a build graph for a materialized view. This gives users the information they need to determine
 when partitions of the materialized view need to be recomputed.