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 ### Heap Usage
 
 The best way to evaluate your memory footprint is to look at heap
-usage right aver V8 performs garbage collection.  `memwatch` does
+usage right after V8 performs garbage collection.  `memwatch` does
 exactly this - it checks heap usage only after GC to give you a stable
 baseline of your actual memory usage.