diff --git a/doc/src/Examples.rst b/doc/src/Examples.rst
index f91ca2db11..c211727902 100644
--- a/doc/src/Examples.rst
+++ b/doc/src/Examples.rst
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ Lowercase directories
 +-------------+------------------------------------------------------------------+
 | friction    | frictional contact of spherical asperities between 2d surfaces   |
 +-------------+------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| gcmc        | Grand Canonical Monte Carlo (GCMC) via the fix gcmc command      |
+| mc          | Monte Carlo features via fix gcmc, widom and other commands      |
 +-------------+------------------------------------------------------------------+
 | granregion  | use of fix wall/region/gran as boundary on granular particles    |
 +-------------+------------------------------------------------------------------+
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ Uppercase directories
 +------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 | KAPPA      | compute thermal conductivity via several methods                                                 |
 +------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
-| MC         | using LAMMPS in a Monte Carlo mode to relax the energy of a system                               |
+| MC-LOOP    | using LAMMPS in a Monte Carlo mode to relax the energy of a system in a input script loop        |
 +------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 | PACKAGES   | examples for specific packages and contributed commands                                          |
 +------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
diff --git a/examples/MC/README b/examples/MC-LOOP/README
similarity index 100%
rename from examples/MC/README
rename to examples/MC-LOOP/README
diff --git a/examples/MC/in.mc b/examples/MC-LOOP/in.mc
similarity index 100%
rename from examples/MC/in.mc
rename to examples/MC-LOOP/in.mc
diff --git a/examples/MC/log.13Oct16.mc.g++.1 b/examples/MC-LOOP/log.13Oct16.mc.g++.1
similarity index 100%
rename from examples/MC/log.13Oct16.mc.g++.1
rename to examples/MC-LOOP/log.13Oct16.mc.g++.1
diff --git a/examples/README b/examples/README
index 50d3d52e65..c398579cde 100644
--- a/examples/README
+++ b/examples/README
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ The KAPPA directory has example scripts for computing the thermal
 conductivity (kappa) of a LJ liquid using 5 different methods.  See
 the KAPPA/README file for more info.
 
-The MC directory has an example script for using LAMMPS as an
+The MC-LOOP directory has an example script for using LAMMPS as an
 energy-evaluation engine in a iterative Monte Carlo energy-relaxation
 loop.