Attribution

n.	1.	The act of attributing or ascribing, as a quality, character, or function, to a thing or person, an effect to a cause.
	2.	That which is ascribed or attributed.

Noun	1.	attribution - assigning some quality or character to a person or thing; "the attribution of language to birds"; "the ascription to me of honors I had not earned" Synonyms: ascription
	2.	attribution - assigning to a cause or source; "the attribution of lighting to an expression of God's wrath"; "he questioned the attribution of the painting to Picasso" Synonyms: ascription

ascription, categorisation, categorization, classification, sorting, zoomorphism