diff --git a/include/boost/numeric/ublas/config.hpp b/include/boost/numeric/ublas/config.hpp
index 3cf4924f..433476b7 100644
--- a/include/boost/numeric/ublas/config.hpp
+++ b/include/boost/numeric/ublas/config.hpp
@@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ namespace std {
 #define BOOST_UBLAS_BOUNDS_CHECK
 
 // Type check for non dense matrices
-#ifndef BOOST_NO_UBLAS_TYPE_CHECK
+#ifndef BOOST_UBLAS_NO_TYPE_CHECK
 #define BOOST_UBLAS_TYPE_CHECK
 #endif