English Dictionary: silo | by the DICT Development Group |
5 results for silo | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Silo \Si"lo\, n. [F.] A pit or vat for packing away green fodder for winter use so as to exclude air and outside moisture. See {Ensilage}. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Silo, OK (town, FIPS 67550) Location: 34.03505 N, 96.47536 W Population (1990): 249 (98 housing units) Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
silo n. The FIFO input-character buffer in an RS-232 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. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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. |