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Noun
/ˈsīlō/,
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silos, plural;
  1. A tower or pit on a farm used to store grain

  2. A pit or other airtight structure in which green crops are compressed and stored as silage

  3. An underground chamber in which a guided missile is kept ready for firing


  1. a cylindrical tower used for storing silage
  2. military installation consisting of an underground structure where ballistic missiles can be stored and fired
  3. A silo is a structure for storing bulk materials. Silos are used in agriculture to store grain (see grain elevators) or fermented feed known as silage. Silos are more commonly used for bulk storage of grain, coal, cement, carbon black, woodchips, food products and sawdust. ...
  4. Šilo is a village in Croatia.
  5. The SPARC Improved bootLOader (SILO) is the bootloader used by the SPARC port of the Linux operating system; it can also be used for Solaris as a replacement for the standard Solaris boot loader.
  6. This is a list of minor 2000 AD stories
  7. Silo is a data format and library developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) for storing rectilinear, curvilinear, unstructured, or point meshes in 2D and 3D. ...
  8. Mario Luis Rodríguez Cobos (January 6, 1938 – September 16, 2010), pen-name Silo, was a writer and spiritual leader. Study groups in the late 1960s organized around his works and formed what became the Humanist Movement.
  9. A vertical building, usually circular, used for the storage of grain; An underground bunker used to hold missiles which may be launched; An approach to data systems management in which information is "stove-piped", considered to be outdated and inferior to the integrating approach of modern ...
  10. (Silos) Traditionally, funding for mental health treatment came from different sources than funding for substance abuse treatment. Consequently, programs specializing in services for mental health concerns have been distinct from programs specializing in services for substance abuse issues. ...
  11. (silos) fixed vertical underground structures made of steel and concrete that house an ICBM and its launch support equipment.
  12. A storage facility for silage. Usually referring to upright concrete or fiberglass silos.
  13. A way of structuring categories on your website and individual web pages. Normally all the pages and navigation links in a silo are relevant to each other, and the “silo” structure helps improve rankings by structuring similar items into easily navigated categories. ...
  14. Usually a tall, cylindrical structure in which fodder (animal feed) is stored; may be a pit dug for the same purpose.
  15. The structures, usually underground bunkers, that hold nuclear missiles.
  16. A tall storage facility that holds food for animals.
  17. an underground installation, typically a cylindrical structure, designed to house a MISSILE; term derives from "subterranean storage", but also refers to the launch platforms (eg: SLBM) concealed below DECK on-board ships.
  18. Inefficient departments with little or no planning and co-ordination between related programmes.
  19. A large store for wood fuel deliveries. Usually stores wood pellets in 3 to 5 tonnes deliveries for domestic installations. Sizes would be larger for wood chips.
  20. Divisions, departments, or other groups and individuals on campus that tend to act in isolation from one another.
  21. the preferred method of organizing information on a website, ranging from the most generic to the most specific information on each given topic
  22. A pit or airtight structure in which green crops are pressed and kept for fodder, undergoing fermentation.
  23. Term used to describe a government (local, regional or national) department that does not work effectively with other parts of the organisation and outside service providers. Thought to reduce organisational effectiveness and is the enemy of 'joined up' government.
  24. A pit or airtight chamber for storing grain or other loose materials, or for packing and preserving green crops for fodder.
  25. A term describing a functional area of an organization. For example a customer service department, that has very little communication or integration with other functional areas. A "silo view" is the opposite of a "system-wide view."