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determinate flow direction
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[network analysis]
A conclusively definitive line or course in which something is issuing or moving in a stream. For an edge feature, this occurs when the flow direction can be ascertained from the connectivity of a network, the locations of sources and sinks, and the enabled or disabled states of features.