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The nonvanishing top-degree form is a volume form. Declare an ordered tangent basis positive when its value under is positive. Smooth nonvanishing ensures these choices agree on overlapping oriented charts and vary continuously. Hence a symplectic manifold is orientable; this is its symplectic orientation.

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