diff --git a/src/items/external-blocks.md b/src/items/external-blocks.md
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@@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ r[items.extern.attributes.link_ordinal]
 ### The `link_ordinal` attribute
 
 r[items.extern.attributes.link_ordinal.intro]
-The *`link_ordinal` attribute* can be applied on declarations inside an `extern` block to indicate the numeric ordinal to use when generating the import library to link against. An ordinal is a unique number per symbol exported by a dynamic library on Windows and can be used when the library is being loaded to find that symbol rather than having to look it up by name.
+The *`link_ordinal` attribute* can be applied on declarations inside an `extern` block to indicate the numeric ordinal to import from the specified dynamic library and use when referencing the import from Rust. An ordinal is a unique number per symbol exported by a dynamic library on Windows and can be used when the library is being loaded to find that symbol rather than having to look it up by name.
 
 > [!WARNING]
 > `link_ordinal` should only be used in cases where the ordinal of the symbol is known to be stable: if the ordinal of a symbol is not explicitly set when its containing binary is built then one will be automatically assigned to it, and that assigned ordinal may change between builds of the binary.