rotation vs twisting

rotation and twisting both are nouns.

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

As nouns, twisting is a hyponym of rotation; that is, twisting is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than rotation:

rotation (noun)	twisting (noun)
the act of rotating as if on an axis	the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
a planned recurrent sequence (of crops or personnel etc.)	the act of rotating rapidly
a single complete turn (axial or orbital)
(mathematics) a transformation in which the coordinate axes are rotated by a fixed angle about the origin

rotation (adjective)	twisting (adjective)
	marked by repeated turns and bends