typhon-, typhoni- +
(Greek > Latin: whirlwind, tempest)
Typhon
1. A violent whirlwind; a typhoon.
2. A surface-to-air missile designed for shipboard deployment against high-performance aircraft and short-range tactical missiles.
2. A surface-to-air missile designed for shipboard deployment against high-performance aircraft and short-range tactical missiles.
It carries a nuclear or a non-nuclear warhead.
3. Etymology: from Greek mythology, a monster with a hundred heads and one of the whirlwinds.Son of Typhoeus and Echidna; father of Cerberus and the Chimera and the Sphinx.
typhon, tyfon
Acoustical engineering, a loudspeaker horn that is actuated by compressed air or steam.
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