silo

  1. Noun.  (agriculture) A vertical building, usually circular, used for the storage of grain.
  2. Noun.  (military) An underground bunker used to hold missiles which may be launched.
  3. Noun.  An approach to data systems management in which information is "stove-piped", considered to be outdated and inferior to the integrating approach of modern informatics.
  4. Verb.  (transitive) To store in a silo.

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