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 An approach to data systems management in which information is "stove-piped", considered to be outdated and inferior to the integrating approach of modern informatics.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