Updated a few doc paragraphs following the app-loading refactor.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/docs/ref/settings.txt b/docs/ref/settings.txt
index 3e625ace85..fbd06976cc 100644
--- a/docs/ref/settings.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/settings.txt
@@ -1285,18 +1285,17 @@ INSTALLED_APPS
 
 Default: ``()`` (Empty tuple)
 
-A tuple of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this Django
-installation. Each string should be a full Python path to a Python package that
-contains a Django application, as created by :djadmin:`django-admin.py startapp
-<startapp>`.
+A tuple of strings designating all applications that are enabled in this
+Django installation. Each string should be a full Python path to an
+application configuration class or to a Python package containing a
+application. :ref:` Learn more about applications </ref/applications>`.
 
-.. admonition:: App names must be unique
+.. admonition:: Application labels must be unique
 
-    The application names (that is, the final dotted part of the
-    path to the module containing ``models.py``) defined in
-    :setting:`INSTALLED_APPS` *must* be unique. For example, you can't
-    include both ``django.contrib.auth`` and ``myproject.auth`` in
-    INSTALLED_APPS.
+    Application labels (that is, the final part of the dotted path to
+    application packages) *must* be unique in :setting:`INSTALLED_APPS`.
+    For example, you can't include both ``django.contrib.auth`` and
+    ``myproject.auth``.
 
 .. setting:: INTERNAL_IPS