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The /noun/ Typhon has one meaning:

Meaning #1 : (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

Wikipedia

Typhon

*Typhon* (Typhaon, Typhoeus, Typhus), in Greek mythology , was the final
son of Gaia , this time with Tartarus , the offspring of the Earth and the
cavernous void beneath:

/But when Zeus had driven the Titans from heaven,//huge Earth bare her
youngest child Typhoeus of the love of//Tartarus, by the aid of golden
Aphrodite./ —Hesiod, /Theogony/ 820ff.

The Homeric Hymn to Apollo makes the monster Typhaon at Delphi a son of
archaic Hera in her Minoan form, produced out of herself, like a monstrous
version of Hephaestus , and whelped in a cave in Cilicia and confined
there in the land of the Arimi (/Iliad /, ii. 783). It was in Cilicia that
Zeus battled with the ancient monster and overcame him. It was not an easy
battle: Typhon temporarily overcame Zeus, cut the sinews from him and left
him in the "leather sack," the /korukos/ that is the etymological origin
of the /korukion atron,/ the Korykian or Corycian Cave .

The inveterate enemy of the Olympian gods is described as a vast grisly
monster with a hundred heads and a hundred serpents issuing from his
thighs, who was conquered and cast into Tartarus by Zeus . or confined
beneath Mount Etna

(Pindar , /Pythian Ode/ i.19 - 20; Aeschylus , /Prometheus Bound/ 370)
where "his bed scratches and goads the whole length of his back stretched
out against it," or in other volcanic regions, where he is the cause of
eruptions.

Typhon is thus the chthonic figuration of volcanic forces, as Hephaestus
(Roman Vulcan ) is their Olympian manifestation. Amongst his children by
Echidna are Cerberus , the serpent-like Lernaean hydra , and the Chimaera
. Typhon is also the father of hot dangerous winds (Greek "typhein" to
smoke), which were extended by the Arabs to include the cyclonic storms of
the Indian Ocean, hence English /typhoon /.

Later Hellenistic writers identified Typhon with the Egyptian Set
.

References

* Robert Graves
,
/The Greek Myths/, 36.1-3, 1955
* Karl Kerenyi
,
/The Gods of the Greeks/ 1951