noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'
directed; oriented
Mathematics term used to describe graphs, edges, or sets that have a direction assigned. Appears in technical contexts such as 有向グラフ (directed graph).
有向グラフでは、各辺に向きがある。
In a directed graph, each edge has a direction.
この問題は有向集合の概念を使って解ける。
This problem can be solved using the concept of directed sets.