rotation vs movement

movement vs rotation

rotation and movement both are nouns.

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

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

rotation: the act of rotating as if on an axis
movement: a change of position that does not entail a change of location

Other hypernyms of rotation include motility, motion, move.

rotation (noun)	movement (noun)
the act of rotating as if on an axis	a change of position that does not entail a change of location
a planned recurrent sequence (of crops or personnel etc.)	the act of changing the location of something
a single complete turn (axial or orbital)	a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
(mathematics) a transformation in which the coordinate axes are rotated by a fixed angle about the origin	the act of changing location from one place to another
	the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
	a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
	a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata
	a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
	a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
	an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
	a euphemism for defecation

Difference between rotation and movement

Words related to "movement"

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