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 The misaligned atomicity granule PMA provides constrained support for
 misaligned AMOs.
 This PMA, if present, specifies the size of a _misaligned atomicity granule_,
-a power-of-two number of bytes.
+a naturally aligned power-of-two number of bytes.
 Specific supported values for this PMA are represented by MAG__NN__, e.g.,
 MAG16 indicates the misaligned atomicity granule is at least 16 bytes.