n. | 1. | A pit or vat for packing away green fodder for winter use so as to exclude air and outside moisture. See Ensilage. |
Noun | 1. | silo - a cylindrical tower used for storing silage |
2. | silo - military installation consisting of an underground structure where ballistic missiles can be stored and fired |
silo - The FIFO input-character buffer in an EIA-232 serial line card. So called from DEC terminology used on DH and DZ line cards for the VAX and PDP-11, presumably because it was a storage space for fungible stuff that went in at the top and came out at the bottom. |