axial rotation vs rotation

axial rotation and rotation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
axial rotation	Yes	No	No	No
rotation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, rotation is a hypernym of axial rotation; that is, rotation is a word with a broader meaning than axial rotation:

Other hypernyms of axial rotation include gyration, revolution.

axial rotation (noun)	rotation (noun)
rotary motion of an object around its own axis	the act of rotating as if on an axis
	a planned recurrent sequence (of crops or personnel etc.)
	a single complete turn (axial or orbital)
	(mathematics) a transformation in which the coordinate axes are rotated by a fixed angle about the origin