distribution

[OED]: 3. a. The orderly dividing of a mass or collective body into parts with distinctive characters or functions; the orderly arrangement of the parts into which any whole is divided; division and arrangement; classification.; 3. c. Statistics. The way in which a particular measurement or characteristic is spread over the members of a class.

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Golledge (1995)
A particular subdivision of the global set [of occurrences] according to a well-specified criterion is called a distribution.  . . . A spatial distribution [is] . . . one in which the critical criterion for inclusion or exclusion from a set is location (p. 35-36).  Golledge defines properties of distributions, including boundary, density, dispersion, pattern, and shape (p. 36-38)
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