If mereological structure and spatial structure can come apart (as priority monists like Schaffer maintain about the whole preceding its parts), then a complex region's structure need not mirror the located entity's composition.

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Come apart(as used in logic and philosophy): To be different or separate from each other; in this case, it means mereological structure and spatial structure could be organized differently.
Jonathan Schaffer(as a philosopher referenced for their specific theory): A contemporary philosopher who defends priority monism—the idea that wholes are more basic and real than their parts.
Mereological structure(as used in metaphysics): How something is put together—which parts make it up and how those parts fit together.
Mirror(as used in metaphysical arguments): In this context, it means 'match' or 'correspond to'—so the region's structure mirrors the entity's composition if they have the same organization.
Priority monism(View defended by Jonathan Schaffer (2010) as an alternative to smallism): The view that facts about little things are grounded in facts about big things, and that all things ultimately exist and are the way they are because of facts about the universe as a whole, making the universe the one and only fundamental thing
Spatial structure(as used in metaphysics): How something is organized in physical space—the shape, location, and arrangement of things in the space around us.
composition(Zabarella's method as commonly described): The movement back from causes to effects.

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