English Dictionary

silo

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈsaɪloʊ/

名詞

軽蔑的 俗語

(agriculture) A vertical building, usually cylindrical, used for the production of silage. / (agriculture) from the shape, a building used for the storage of grain.

日本語の意味

農業用のサイレージ（飼料）を貯蔵するための垂直な円筒形の建物 / 形状にちなんで、穀物などの貯蔵に使用される建物

The farmer inspected the silo before the rainy season to ensure the silage stayed dry.

農家は雨季の前にサイロを点検し、サイレージが濡れないようにした。

意味（1）

(agriculture) A vertical building, usually cylindrical, used for the production of silage.

意味（2）

(agriculture) from the shape, a building used for the storage of grain.

意味（3）

(military) An underground bunker used to hold missiles which may be launched.

As a rule of thumb, to reliably destroy a hardened missile silo or communications bunker, a one megaton warhead should land within a 600 foot radius of its target. This will ensure that the enemy silo lies within the crater gouged out by the nuclear blast.

意味（4）

(derogatory, management) An organizational unit that has poor interaction with other units, negatively affecting overall performance.

A silo is created when members in one department or function do not interact with those in another department, even though there might be operational benefits to the interaction.

意味（5）

(derogatory, informatics) A structure in the information system that is poorly networked with other structures, with data exchange hampered.

Our networking is organized in silos, and employees lose time manually transferring data.

意味（6）

(derogatory, slang) A self-enclosed group of like-minded individuals.

意味（7）

(computing) In Microsoft Windows operating systems, a kernel object for isolating groups of threads.

silos （ plural ）