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motion vs rotation

rotation vs motion

motion and rotation both are nouns.

motion is a verb but rotation is not a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
motion Yes No Yes No
rotation Yes No No No
As nouns, rotation is a hyponym of motion; that is, rotation is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than motion:
  • motion: a change of position that does not entail a change of location
  • rotation: the act of rotating as if on an axis
Other hyponyms of motion include abduction, adduction, agitation, body English, circumduction, disturbance, fetal movement, foetal movement, dart, flit, gesture, headshake, headshaking, inclination, inclining, eversion, everting, inversion, inversion, upending, jerk, jerking, jolt, saccade, kick, kicking, kneel, kneeling, lurch, pitch, pitching, eye movement, opening, prostration, reach, reaching, stretch, reciprocation, reclining, retraction, retroflection, retroflexion, rotary motion, closing, shutting, sitting, posing, sitting, snap, squat, squatting, sweep, toss, quiver, quivering, vibration, wave, flicker, flutter, waver, standing, span, straddle, stroke, squirm, wiggle, wriggle, eurhythmics, eurhythmy, eurythmics, eurythmy.
motion (noun) rotation (noun)
a change of position that does not entail a change of location the act of rotating as if on an axis
the act of changing location from one place to another a planned recurrent sequence (of crops or personnel etc.)
the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals a single complete turn (axial or orbital)
a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote (mathematics) a transformation in which the coordinate axes are rotated by a fixed angle about the origin
a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
a state of change
motion (verb) rotation (verb)
show, express or direct through movement
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