Word Finder - silos

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

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From the shape, a building used for the storage of grain.

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• grain elevator
• granary

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

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

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

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

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A self-enclosed group of like-minded individuals.

Government buildings were converted into silos to hold the abundance, as other countries in the region placed orders for massive amounts of these seeds.

Storage is usually in steel silos (heat could damage concrete silos).

Storage is usually in steel silos (heat could damage concrete silos ).

This creates silos of information, limiting access to data and impairing overall business visibility.

A single body will also need to ensure that in joining up across equalities, new silos within the Commission are not created.

Missile silos in which ground launched cruise missiles of the 501st tactical missile unit USAF were stored, 25th January 1989.

It utilizes sealed silos, transfer conveyor and mixing units to minimize environmental nuisance to the local residents.

However, many variations from the ideal will exist, including pre-war silos of concrete cylindrical construction.

The perils of the ' departmental silos ' run particularly deep in Northern Ireland, for two crucial reasons.

Spend twelve hours hunting down nuclear silos in deepest Russia (they're out there somewhere ).

Work is carried out in separate silos, with no ' ownership ' of individual cases.

Less obvious are the storage silos on farms, usually blue or green; they tower over the surrounding countryside.

Integrates with your existing systems to help break down information silos.

We wanted to move away from these silos of information to a more complete and efficient view of our customers ' interactions.

It 's not like they 're building top secret missile silos.

Spend twelve hours hunting down nuclear silos in deepest Russia (they 're out there somewhere).

Specialists who operate in the silos of their expertise don't always think beyond their functional boundaries.

It's not like they're building top secret missile silos.

Large organizations, of course, are filled with specialists in silos, adding another obstacle beyond the cultural aversion to chaos.

Even if oats are gluten-free, they are often housed in silos that have contained wheat at one time, or processed in facilities that also process wheat products.