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 # Gateway
 
-EMQX Gateway is an application that managing all gateways in EMQX.
+EMQX Gateway is an application framework that manages all gateways within EMQX.
 
 It provides a set of standards to define how to implement a certain type of
 protocol access on EMQX. For example: