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@@ -133,6 +133,11 @@ Both the C and Fortran orders are :term:`contiguous`, *i.e.,*
single-segment, memory layouts, in which every part of the
memory block can be accessed by some combination of the indices.
+.. note::
+
+ `Contiguous arrays` and `single-segment arrays` are synonymous
+ and are used interchangeably throughout the documentation.
+
While a C-style and Fortran-style contiguous array, which has the corresponding
flags set, can be addressed with the above strides, the actual strides may be
different. This can happen in two cases: