diff --git a/Installation/CHANGES.md b/Installation/CHANGES.md
index 1dbd74ee91d..24d7b99b6e1 100644
--- a/Installation/CHANGES.md
+++ b/Installation/CHANGES.md
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Release date: June 2022
 
 ### [Polygon Mesh Processing](https://doc.cgal.org/5.5/Manual/packages.html#PkgPolygonMeshProcessing)
 -   Added the function `CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::orient_triangle_soup_with_reference_triangle_soup()`, which enables re-orienting the faces of a triangle soup based on the orientation of the nearest face in a reference triangle soup.
--   Added the function `CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::connected_components_compatible_orientations()`, which enables to retrieve the (in)compatibility of orientations of faces from different connected components.
+-   Added the function `CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::compatible_orientations()`, which enables to retrieve the (in)compatibility of orientations of faces from different connected components.
 -   Added the function `CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::tangential_relaxation()`, which applies an area-based tangential mesh smoothing to the vertices of a surface triangle mesh.
 
 ### [2D Polygons](https://doc.cgal.org/5.5/Manual/packages.html#PkgPolygon2)
diff --git a/Polygon_mesh_processing/doc/Polygon_mesh_processing/PackageDescription.txt b/Polygon_mesh_processing/doc/Polygon_mesh_processing/PackageDescription.txt
index 2ac0ec1a450..6281ae0cdba 100644
--- a/Polygon_mesh_processing/doc/Polygon_mesh_processing/PackageDescription.txt
+++ b/Polygon_mesh_processing/doc/Polygon_mesh_processing/PackageDescription.txt
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ The page \ref bgl_namedparameters "Named Parameters" describes their usage.
 - `CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::orient_triangle_soup_with_reference_triangle_mesh()`
 - `CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::orient_triangle_soup_with_reference_triangle_soup()`
 - `CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::merge_reversible_connected_components()`
-- `CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::connected_components_compatible_orientations()`
+- `CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::compatible_orientations()`
 
 \cgalCRPSection{Hole Filling Functions}
 - `CGAL::Polygon_mesh_processing::triangulate_hole()`
diff --git a/Polygon_mesh_processing/examples/Polygon_mesh_processing/cc_compatible_orientations.cpp b/Polygon_mesh_processing/examples/Polygon_mesh_processing/cc_compatible_orientations.cpp
index adee9c501d1..8a47239c5aa 100644
--- a/Polygon_mesh_processing/examples/Polygon_mesh_processing/cc_compatible_orientations.cpp
+++ b/Polygon_mesh_processing/examples/Polygon_mesh_processing/cc_compatible_orientations.cpp
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ int main()
 
   // determine face orientations to be reversed to create compatibility
   auto fbm = mesh.add_property_map<Mesh::Face_index, bool>("fbm", false).first;
-  bool is_orientable = PMP::connected_components_compatible_orientations(mesh, fbm);
+  bool is_orientable = PMP::compatible_orientations(mesh, fbm);
   assert(is_orientable);
 
   // reverse orientation of faces with bit 1
diff --git a/Polygon_mesh_processing/include/CGAL/Polygon_mesh_processing/orientation.h b/Polygon_mesh_processing/include/CGAL/Polygon_mesh_processing/orientation.h
index 4cedb29d147..135d80edbcc 100644
--- a/Polygon_mesh_processing/include/CGAL/Polygon_mesh_processing/orientation.h
+++ b/Polygon_mesh_processing/include/CGAL/Polygon_mesh_processing/orientation.h
@@ -1608,10 +1608,9 @@ void merge_reversible_connected_components(PolygonMesh& pm,
 /*!
  * \ingroup PMP_orientation_grp
  *
- * identifies possible connections between the connected components of `pm` and if re-orientable,
- * assigns a bit (`false` or `true`) to each face such that
- * two faces with the same bits have a compatible orientation, while
- * two faces with opposite bits have an incompatible orientation.
+ * identifies faces whose orientation must be reversed in order to enable stitching of connected components.
+ * Each face is assigned a bit (`false` or `true`)
+ * such that two faces have compatible orientations iff they are assigned the same bits.
  *
  * @tparam PolygonMesh a model of `HalfedgeListGraph`, `FaceGraph`.
  * @tparam FaceBitMap a model of `WritablePropertyMap` with `face_descriptor` as key and `bool` as value_type
@@ -1635,11 +1634,15 @@ void merge_reversible_connected_components(PolygonMesh& pm,
  *                     should be available for the vertices of `pm`.}
  *   \cgalParamNEnd
  * \cgalNamedParamsEnd
+ *
+ * \sa reverse_face_orientations()
+ * \sa stitch_borders()
+ *
  */
 template <class PolygonMesh, class FaceBitMap, class NamedParameters = parameters::Default_named_parameters>
-bool connected_components_compatible_orientations(const PolygonMesh& pm,
-                                                  FaceBitMap fbm,
-                                                  const NamedParameters& np = parameters::default_values())
+bool compatible_orientations(const PolygonMesh& pm,
+                             FaceBitMap fbm,
+                             const NamedParameters& np = parameters::default_values())
 {
   typedef boost::graph_traits<PolygonMesh> GrT;
   typedef typename GrT::face_descriptor face_descriptor;