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T0448600 (tī-fo͞on′)n. A tropical cyclone occurring in the western Pacific or Indian Oceans.

[Alteration (influenced by Chinese terms for typhoons, perhaps Cantonese toi²fung¹, typhoon, and kindred terms) of earlier English tuffon, tufan, deluge, from Hindi and Urdu tūfān, storm of wind and rain, flood, from Arabic ṭūfān, deluge, from Greek tuphōn, Typhon, whirlwind.]

typhoon

(taɪˈfuːn) n1. (Physical Geography) a violent tropical storm or cyclone, esp in the China seas and W Pacific2. (Physical Geography) a violent storm of India[C16: from Chinese tai fung great wind, from tai great + fung wind; influenced by Greek tuphōn whirlwind] typhonic adj

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n. 1. a tropical cyclone or hurricane of the W Pacific area and the China seas. 2. a violent storm or tempest of India. [1690–1700; < dial. Chinese (Guangdong) daaih-fùng (akin to Chinese dàfēng great wind), altered by association with Greek tȳphôn violent wind]

ty·phoon

(tī-fo͞on′) A hurricane occurring in the western Pacific Ocean. See Note at cyclone.

typhoon

a cyclone or hurricane in the western Pacific Ocean.See also: Wind

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An intense cyclone in the China Sea where the spiraling wind-speed reaches over 100 miles (160km) per hour.

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Noun

typhoon - a tropical cyclone occurring in the western Pacific or Indian oceanscyclone - a violent rotating windstorm

typhoon

noun storm, tornado, cyclone, tempest, squall, tropical storm She had to endure being in a typhoon for 67 hours.

Translations

台风

typhoon

(taiˈfuːn) noun a violent sea-storm occurring in the East. They were caught in a typhoon in the China seas.台风

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tropical cyclone in which winds attain speeds greater than 74 mi (119 km) per hr. Wind speeds gust over 200 mi (320 km) per hr in some hurricanes. The term is often restricted to those storms occurring over the N Atlantic Ocean; the identical phenomenon occurring over
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Typhoon

a tropical cyclone that occurs in the western Pacific, to 170°E long., north of the equator. Moving west and northwest with a velocity of 10–20 km an hour, typhoons reach the coast of Indochina, China, and Korea. Changing direction toward the north or northeast, they reach a velocity of 30–50 km an hour, gusting at times to over 100 km an hour. Some typhoons reach southern Japan and, as nontropical cyclones, occasionally reach the Soviet Primor’e region, the Kuril Islands, and even as far as Kamchatka.

The frequency of typhoons is greater than that of tropical cyclones in any other region of the globe. On the average there are approximately 30 typhoons a year. Most develop to the stage of hurricanes, with a wind velocity of over 30 m per sec, while the rest reach the stage of tropical storms. Approximately 70 percent of typhoons occur between July and October, when the intertropical convergence zone shifts far into the northern hemisphere. The diameters of typhoons are relatively small, up to several hundreds of kilometers; in the center the air pressure drops and may reach record lows of less than 90 kilonewtons per sq m, or 900 millibars. Typhoons cause strong waves and are accompanied by enormous amounts of precipitation—up to several hundred millimeters, and in some cases more than 1,000 mm. In the coastal regions of East Asia, typhoons often cause great destruction as a result of floods, tidal waves, and other natural disasters.

REFERENCES

Riehl, H. Tropicheskaia meteorologiia. Moscow, 1963. (Translated from English.)
Mamedov, E. S., and N. I. Pavlov. Taifuny. Leningrad, 1974.

S. P. KHROMOV

typhoon

[tī′fün] (meteorology) A severe tropical cyclone in the western Pacific.

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1. a violent tropical storm or cyclone, esp in the China seas and W Pacific 2. a violent storm of India

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noun a tropical cyclone occurring in the western Pacific or Indian oceans

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