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Noun
/tīˈfo͞on/,
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typhoons, plural;
  1. A tropical storm in the region of the Indian or western Pacific oceans

  1. a tropical cyclone occurring in the western Pacific or Indian oceans
  2. Ajax, known as A-JAX in Japan, is a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game released by Konami in 1987. ...
  3. Typhoon is the name of two DC Comics supervillains.
  4. Typhoon is a novel by Joseph Conrad, begun in 1899 and serialized in Pall Mall Magazine January to March 1902. Its first book publication was in New York by Putnam in 1902 and was published in Britain in Typhoon and Other Stories by Heinemann in 1903.
  5. Typhoon 2 was a robot in the UK television series Robot Wars, noteworthy for being the final champion of the show before it was cancelled. It was a full-body spinner with cutting claws. In two battles in series 7, which it competed in, it knocked out the arena wall, causing the match to restart. ...
  6. Typhoon is a three-person tube water coaster at Six Flags New England. At the time of its premiere (May 31, 2005) it was the only attraction of its kind but in 2006 the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida opened up the Crushin' Gusher another water coaster that consists of three different slides ...
  7. A weather phenomenon in the Eastern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane, which results in wind speeds of 64 knots (118km/h) or above. Equivalent to a cyclone in the Indian Ocean and Indonesia/Australia
  8. A strong tropical revolving storm of force 12 or higher in the southern hemisphere. Typhoons revolve in a counterclockwise direction. In the northern hemisphere these storms revolve clockwise and are known as hurricanes.
  9. A hurricane that forms in the Western Pacific Ocean.
  10. The name for a tropical storm originating in the Pacific Ocean, usually the China Sea
  11. is a tropical cyclone with winds 75 miles per hour or greater in the northwest Pacific ocean. In other parts of the world, such storms have different names, such as hurricanes. Index
  12. A hurricane in the north Pacific west of the International Date Line.
  13. Storm's aggressive reactive coverstock material, falling directly inbetween the Monsoon and ACCU-Tread materials.
  14. A name of Chinese origin (meaning 'great wind') applied to the intense tropical cyclones which occur in the western-most part of the Pacific Ocean. Its characteristics are mirror hurricanes of the Atlantic Ocean and cyclones of the Bay of Bengal.
  15. a tropical cyclone or hurricane of the western Pacific, its seas and inland areas; as derived from Chinese for great wind. [cf: Greek Typhoeus / Typhon]
  16. are huge rotating masses of low pressure characterized by strong winds and torrential rain.
  17. a blend of Arabic Ṭūfān (ultimately from Greek) and the completely independent Cantonese word 'Taaîfung'. Amer. Heritage Dict.
  18. has four 630mm torpedo tubes and two 533mm torpedo tubes with a total of 22 anti-submarine missiles and torpedoes of varying types.