silo Значение & определение

Значение на silo на български

• 0 a large, round tower on a farm for storing grain or winter food for cattle:

  • The red barn is flanked by grain silos.

  • They built stone silos for corn and beans.

  • The missiles are held in an underground silo.

  • The missile silos under construction here leave little doubt that the program is well under way.

• 1 a part of a company, organization, or system that does not communicate with, understand, or work well with other parts:

  • We found that a lot of people work in silos - they don't see the connections between what they do and how another part of the airline operates.

  • the silo mentality that keeps different parts of the healthcare industry from working together

• 2 to separate something or someone from other things or people:

  • The goal is to level the barriers created when an organization's data is siloed.

  • The study of the Web has been siloed into certain areas.

• 3 a large structure, usually cylindrical, used for storing grain or winter food for farm animals