diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/mediactl/media-types.rst b/Documentation/media/uapi/mediactl/media-types.rst
index 3e03dc2e6003..2a5164aea2b4 100644
--- a/Documentation/media/uapi/mediactl/media-types.rst
+++ b/Documentation/media/uapi/mediactl/media-types.rst
@@ -284,7 +284,8 @@ Types and flags used to represent the media graph elements
 	  supported scaling ratios is entity-specific and can differ
 	  between the horizontal and vertical directions (in particular
 	  scaling can be supported in one direction only). Binning and
-	  skipping are considered as scaling.
+	  sub-sampling (occasionally also referred to as skipping) are
+	  considered as scaling.
 
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