diff --git a/Doc/library/tokenize.rst b/Doc/library/tokenize.rst
index 111289c767f..c89d3d4b082 100644
--- a/Doc/library/tokenize.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/tokenize.rst
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ The primary entry point is a :term:`generator`:
    column where the token begins in the source; a 2-tuple ``(erow, ecol)`` of
    ints specifying the row and column where the token ends in the source; and
    the line on which the token was found. The line passed (the last tuple item)
-   is the *logical* line; continuation lines are included.  The 5 tuple is
+   is the *physical* line; continuation lines are included.  The 5 tuple is
    returned as a :term:`named tuple` with the field names:
    ``type string start end line``.
 
diff --git a/Lib/lib2to3/pgen2/tokenize.py b/Lib/lib2to3/pgen2/tokenize.py
index 279d322971d..0f9fde3fb0d 100644
--- a/Lib/lib2to3/pgen2/tokenize.py
+++ b/Lib/lib2to3/pgen2/tokenize.py
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ def generate_tokens(readline):
     column where the token begins in the source; a 2-tuple (erow, ecol) of
     ints specifying the row and column where the token ends in the source;
     and the line on which the token was found. The line passed is the
-    logical line; continuation lines are included.
+    physical line; continuation lines are included.
     """
     lnum = parenlev = continued = 0
     contstr, needcont = '', 0
diff --git a/Lib/tokenize.py b/Lib/tokenize.py
index 0f9d5dd554d..738fb71d188 100644
--- a/Lib/tokenize.py
+++ b/Lib/tokenize.py
@@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ def tokenize(readline):
     column where the token begins in the source; a 2-tuple (erow, ecol) of
     ints specifying the row and column where the token ends in the source;
     and the line on which the token was found.  The line passed is the
-    logical line; continuation lines are included.
+    physical line; continuation lines are included.
 
     The first token sequence will always be an ENCODING token
     which tells you which encoding was used to decode the bytes stream.