Relation To Direction
A line between two points p1 and p2 has no given direction, but has a well-defined orientation. However, if one of the points p1 is used as a reference or origin, then the other point p2 can be described in terms of a vector which points in the direction to p2. Intuitively, orientation can be thought of as a direction without sign. Formally, this relates to projective spaces where the orientation of a vector corresponds to the equivalence class of vectors which are scaled versions of the vector.
For an image edge, we may talk of its direction which can be defined in terms of the gradient, pointing in the direction of maximum image intensity increase (from dark to bright). This implies that two edges can have the same orientation but the corresponding image gradients point in opposite directions if the edges go in different directions.
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