clockwise rotation vs rotation

clockwise rotation and rotation both are nouns.

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

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

Other hypernyms of clockwise rotation include gyration, revolution.

clockwise rotation (noun)	rotation (noun)
rotation to the right	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