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 ## Making your reducers undoable
 
-`redux-undo` is a reducer enhancer, it provides the `undoable` function, which
+`redux-undo` is a reducer enhancer (higher-order reducer), it provides the `undoable` function, which
 takes an existing reducer and a configuration object and enhances your existing
 reducer with undo functionality.