diff --git a/projects/hip/README.md b/projects/hip/README.md
index e7037c7fdb..d5f278f3c2 100644
--- a/projects/hip/README.md
+++ b/projects/hip/README.md
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ HIP C++ code can be compiled with either,
functions and thus has very low overhead - developers coding in HIP should expect the same performance as coding in native CUDA. The code is then
compiled with nvcc, the standard C++ compiler provided with the CUDA SDK. Developers can use any tools supported by the CUDA SDK including the CUDA
profiler and debugger.
-* On the AMD ROCm platform, HIP provides a header and runtime library built on top of HIP-Clang compiler in the repository [Common Language Runtime (CLR)](https://github.com/ROCm/clr). The HIP runtime implements HIP streams, events, and memory APIs,
+* On the AMD ROCm platform, HIP provides a header and runtime library built on top of HIP-Clang compiler in the repository [Compute Language Runtime (CLR)](https://github.com/ROCm/clr). The HIP runtime implements HIP streams, events, and memory APIs,
and is a object library that is linked with the application. The source code for all headers and the library implementation is available on GitHub.
HIP developers on ROCm can use AMD's [ROCgdb](https://github.com/ROCm/ROCgdb) for debugging and profiling.
diff --git a/projects/hip/docs/how-to/faq.md b/projects/hip/docs/how-to/faq.md
index 805e5a5ac0..24a638190e 100644
--- a/projects/hip/docs/how-to/faq.md
+++ b/projects/hip/docs/how-to/faq.md
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ NOTE: If HIP_ROCCLR_HOME is set, there is no need to set HIP_CLANG_PATH since hi
## What is AMD clr?
-AMD [Common Language Runtime (CLR)](https://github.com/ROCm/clr) is a repository for the AMD platform, which contains source codes for AMD's compute languages runtimes as follows,
+AMD [Compute Language Runtime (CLR)](https://github.com/ROCm/clr) is a repository for the AMD platform, which contains source codes for AMD's compute languages runtimes as follows,
* hipamd - contains implementation of HIP language for AMD GPU.
* rocclr - contains virtual device interfaces that compute runtimes interact with backends, such as ROCr on Linux and PAL on Windows.
diff --git a/projects/hip/docs/how-to/hip_porting_guide.md b/projects/hip/docs/how-to/hip_porting_guide.md
index 8e123c105a..b052dcda79 100644
--- a/projects/hip/docs/how-to/hip_porting_guide.md
+++ b/projects/hip/docs/how-to/hip_porting_guide.md
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ HIP_PATH ?= $(shell hipconfig --path)
HIP can depend on rocclr, or CUDA as runtime
* AMD platform
-On AMD platform, HIP uses Radeon Open Compute Common Language Runtime, called ROCclr.
+On AMD platform, HIP uses ROCm Compute Language Runtime, called ROCclr.
ROCclr is a virtual device interface that HIP runtimes interact with different backends which allows runtimes to work on Linux , as well as Windows without much efforts.
* NVIDIA platform
diff --git a/projects/hip/docs/index.md b/projects/hip/docs/index.md
index 54fa9cc411..e62da5fa73 100644
--- a/projects/hip/docs/index.md
+++ b/projects/hip/docs/index.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ For HIP supported AMD GPUs on multiple operating systems, see:
The CUDA enabled NVIDIA GPUs are supported by HIP. For more information, see [GPU Compute Capability](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus).
-On the AMD ROCm platform, HIP provides header files and runtime library built on top of HIP-Clang compiler in the repository [Common Language Runtimes (CLR)](./understand/amd_clr), which contains source codes for AMD's compute languages runtimes as follows,
+On the AMD ROCm platform, HIP provides header files and runtime library built on top of HIP-Clang compiler in the repository [Compute Language Runtimes (CLR)](./understand/amd_clr), which contains source codes for AMD's compute languages runtimes as follows,
On non-AMD platforms, like NVIDIA, HIP provides header files required to support non-AMD specific back-end implementation in the repository ['hipother'](https://github.com/ROCm/hipother), which translates from the HIP runtime APIs to CUDA runtime APIs.
diff --git a/projects/hip/docs/install/build.rst b/projects/hip/docs/install/build.rst
index 72fed1dc48..013297962f 100644
--- a/projects/hip/docs/install/build.rst
+++ b/projects/hip/docs/install/build.rst
@@ -60,9 +60,9 @@ Set the repository branch using the variable: ``ROCM_BRANCH``. For example, for
git clone -b "$ROCM_BRANCH" https://github.com/ROCm/clr.git
git clone -b "$ROCM_BRANCH" https://github.com/ROCm/hip.git
- CLR (Common Language Runtime) repository includes ROCclr, HIPAMD and OpenCL.
+ CLR (Compute Language Runtime) repository includes ROCclr, HIPAMD and OpenCL.
- ROCclr (Radeon Open Compute Common Language Runtime) is a virtual device interface which
+ ROCclr (ROCm Compute Language Runtime) is a virtual device interface which
is defined on the AMD platform. HIP runtime uses ROCclr to interact with different backends.
HIPAMD provides implementation specifically for HIP on the AMD platform.
diff --git a/projects/hip/docs/understand/amd_clr.rst b/projects/hip/docs/understand/amd_clr.rst
index 3a643cb051..eca39270cd 100644
--- a/projects/hip/docs/understand/amd_clr.rst
+++ b/projects/hip/docs/understand/amd_clr.rst
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
.. _AMD_Compute_Language_Runtimes:
*******************************************************************************
-AMD common language runtimes (CLR)
+AMD compute language runtimes (CLR)
*******************************************************************************
CLR contains source codes for AMD's compute languages runtimes: ``HIP`` and ``OpenCL™``.
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ CLR includes the following source code,
* ``opencl`` - contains implementation of `OpenCL™ `_ on AMD platform. It is hosted at `clr/opencl `_.
-* ``rocclr`` - contains common runtime used in `HIP` and `OpenCL™`. This is hosted at `clr/rocclr `_.
+* ``rocclr`` - contains ROCm compute runtime used in `HIP` and `OpenCL™`. This is hosted at `clr/rocclr `_.
How to build/install
diff --git a/projects/hip/docs/understand/glossary.md b/projects/hip/docs/understand/glossary.md
index 272acd4beb..c5c700f8e2 100644
--- a/projects/hip/docs/understand/glossary.md
+++ b/projects/hip/docs/understand/glossary.md
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ The default device can be set with `hipSetDevice`.
* **HIP-Clang** - Heterogeneous AMDGPU Compiler, with its capability to compile HIP programs on AMD platform (https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/llvm-project).
-* **clr** - a repository for AMD Common Language Runtime, contains source codes for AMD's compute languages runtimes: HIP and OpenCL.
+* **clr** - a repository for AMD Compute Language Runtime, contains source codes for AMD's compute languages runtimes: HIP and OpenCL.
clr (https://github.com/ROCm/clr) contains the following three parts,
* `hipamd`: contains implementation of HIP language on AMD platform.