diff --git a/micrometer-core/src/main/java/io/micrometer/core/instrument/step/StepCounter.java b/micrometer-core/src/main/java/io/micrometer/core/instrument/step/StepCounter.java
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/micrometer-core/src/main/java/io/micrometer/core/instrument/step/StepCounter.java
+++ b/micrometer-core/src/main/java/io/micrometer/core/instrument/step/StepCounter.java
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ import io.micrometer.core.instrument.Clock;
 import io.micrometer.core.instrument.Counter;
 
 /**
- * Counter that reports a rate per second to a monitoring system. Note that {@link #count()}
+ * Counter that reports a rate per step interval to a monitoring system. Note that {@link #count()}
  * will report the number of events in the last complete interval rather than the total for
  * the life of the process.
  *
Fix StepCounter JavaDoc rate per step

It is only a rate per second if the step interval is one second.

Resolves gh-<I>