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Scientifically, Both are are distance over time. Speed is a scalar, however, which means there is no direction involved. Velocity on the other hand is known as vector, meaning direction is included. So like when an object is spinning round and around, its speed can be constant, but, because the direction is changing, the velocity does not remain constant.

In common speech though the two are interchangeable

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