Displacement is distance from starting point.
If the object is always travelling in the same direction then they are the same.
If the object turns round, the distance would still be increasing, however the displacement would be decreasing at the same rate.
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Displacement is the area under the v-t graph.
The displacement, along the direction of measurement, is zero. It need not mean that the object is back at the starting point. The displacement-time graph, measuring the vertical displacement of a ball thrown at an angle, will have displacement = 0 when the ball returns to ground level but, unless you are extremely feeble, the ball will be some distance away, not at its starting point which is where you are. The use of such a graph is not unusual in the elementary projectile motion under gravity.
It is the instantaneous speed in the direction in which the displacement is measured.
distance time graph is a graph traveled in a graph which shows how much we have traveled in equal period of time.
As, in the velocity-time graph, curves passes through zero means 'when time is zero velocity is zero'. Velocity is time derivative of displacement. So displacement is maximum or minimum when time is zero in position-time graph.