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Displacement is a vector quantity. This means it has both size AND direction.
Therefore, displacement is defined as distance in a given direction. Rather then simply 'distance'.
Distance itself is a scalar quantity... and only has size. No direction.
20m - Distance.
20m upwards - Displacement.
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