Both the counting of distance and displacement is a phenomenon of physics that usually occurs about the movement of one particle from a particular place to another. In the language of physics, distance can be regarded as a scalar quantity that only has magnitude and no direction. It is mostly used to calculate or measure how much has an object or a particle covered on the ground during the motion it has covered. Where on the other hand displacement is regarded as a vector quantity that mostly elaborates that it has both magnitude and direction. Displacement can be referred as the far out reach of an object or a particle throughout its overall change in position from one place to another.

Where it can easily be found that the phenomenon of displacement and distance are main or curd to a person as similar quantities in nature but they have distinct definitions and different meanings. However they can easily be calculated with a simple example as provided. Let us suppose that there is a person who has been walking covers a distance on 6 metres on the east comma 4 metres on the south six metres on the west and in the end covers for metres in the north. It can easily be calculated that the person has covered a total of 20 metres as a distance but the displacement of the person has only been zero metres. To elaborate the case further, it can be explained that the person has covered a total 20 metres on the ground but when the person had completed his or her working they were found that we have never been out of place. Therefore the person has ended right at the place from where he or she had started does it means that they might have a proper distance but there is no displacement found for the person. Displacement it is a vector quantity e and does it has a direction whereas distance is a scalar quantity which does not bother in which direction the distance is being covered.

It might occur that in the terms of physics, distance and displacement are only used for indicating the length between two different points but they are not the same thing as they appear to be. Distance is mostly referring to the space that has been covered between the two points and it is measured throughout the path that has been covered by a particle or an object during its journey. Where, on the other hand, displacement is what meant by the amount of space between the two points that has been measured with the minimum path that can be linked between them. Therefore, while distance is the length of the entire journey covered by a body, displacement means the least distance that has been covered by the same body in the least amount possible. There are also lies difference between the distance and displacement on the face of being a scalar quantity and vector quantity by distance and displacement respectively. Also it can be said that distance provides a complete information about the entire route that the body or the particle has covered where as in case of displacement it is not available to have all the information about the route that the body has travelled throughout.