Is Motion Scalar or Vector in Nature?

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Is Motion a scalar or vector or neither?
 
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excuse me, what do you mean by quantifiable?
 
One definition of motion I have seen is a time-dependent map from phase space to phase space. Which is quite a bit more complex than scalar vs vector.
 

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