diff --git a/arraycontext/context.py b/arraycontext/context.py
index f9a3bd188d7eed185652fb47e28d008da206431b..a4b24029de2012102e27093254526afe63e18f90 100644
--- a/arraycontext/context.py
+++ b/arraycontext/context.py
@@ -1,7 +1,4 @@
 """
-An array context is an abstraction that helps you dispatch between multiple
-implementations of :mod:`numpy`-like :math:`n`-dimensional arrays.
-
 .. currentmodule:: arraycontext
 .. autoclass:: ArrayContext
 """