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-Another parameter that should be considered is the receiver's blocking interval,
+Another parameter that should be considered is the receiver's block interval,
 which is determined by the [configuration parameter](configuration.html#spark-streaming)
 `spark.streaming.blockInterval`. For most receivers, the received data is coalesced together into
 blocks of data before storing inside Spark's memory. The number of blocks in each batch