twisting vs rotation

twisting and rotation both are nouns.

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

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

Other hypernyms of twisting include rotary motion.

twisting (noun)	rotation (noun)
the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean	the act of rotating as if on an axis
the act of rotating rapidly	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

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