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Where speed is distance/time, velocity is displacement/time.

What this means is that velocity is the length covered in relation to the starting point.
Speed is just the distance travelled no matter where you began.

When going around a circular track, you might have a speed value. However, since you get back to the same location at every lap, you have 0 velocity.

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