diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_wait.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_wait.3
index 9250a77eb..e91c360bf 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_wait.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_wait.3
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ CURLMcode curl_multi_wait(CURLM *multi_handle,
                           struct curl_waitfd extra_fds[],
                           unsigned int extra_nfds,
                           int timeout_ms,
-                          int *ret);
+                          int *numfds);
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 .SH DESCRIPTION
 This function polls on all file descriptors used by the curl easy handles
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ detected on at least one of the handles or \fItimeout_ms\fP has passed.
 The calling application may pass additional curl_waitfd structures which are
 similar to \fIpoll(2)\fP's pollfd structure to be waited on in the same call.
 
-On completion, if \fIret\fI is supplied, it will be populated with the
+On completion, if \fInumfds\fI is supplied, it will be populated with the
 number of file descriptors on which interesting events occured.
 
 This function is encouraged to be used instead of select(3) when using the