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Silo vs Cylinder - What's the difference?

silo | cylinder |

As nouns the difference between silo and cylinder

is that silo is silo while cylinder is (geometry) a surface created by projecting a closed two-dimensional curve along an axis intersecting the plane of the curve.

silo

English

(wikipedia silo)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (agriculture) A vertical building, usually circular, used for the storage of grain.
  • (military) An underground bunker used to hold missiles which may be launched.
  • (pejorative, management) An organizational unit that has poor interaction with other units, negatively affecting overall performance.
  • * 2006 , Albert J. Mills, Jean C. Helms Mills, John Bratton, Organizational Behaviour in a Global Context , Page 116
    • 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.
  • (pejorative, 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.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To store in a silo.

    • Synonyms

    * ensile

    See also

    * grain elevator * granary

    Anagrams

    * ----

    cylinder

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geometry) A surface created by projecting a closed two-dimensional curve along an axis intersecting the plane of the curve.
    • When the two-dimensional curve is a circle, the cylinder is called a circular cylinder''. When the axis is perpendicular to the plane of the curve, the cylinder is called a ''right cylinder''. In non-mathematical usage, both ''right'' and ''circular are usually implied.
  • (geometry) A solid figure bounded by a cylinder and two parallel planes intersecting the cylinder.
  • Any object in the form of a circular cylinder.
  • * 1898 — , The War of the Worlds Ch.4
    • A big greyish rounded bulk, the size, perhaps, of a bear, was rising slowly and painfully out of the cylinder .
  • A cylindrical cavity or chamber in a mechanism, such as the counterpart to a piston found in a piston-driven engine.
  • A container in the form of a cylinder with rounded ends for storing pressurized gas.
  • An early form of phonograph recording, made on a wax cylinder.
  • The part of a revolver that contains chambers for the cartridges.
  • (computing) The corresponding tracks on a vertical arrangement of disks in a disk drive considered as a unit of data capacity.

    • See also

    * (wikipedia "cylinder")

    Derived terms

    * cylinder head * cylindrical * fire on all cylinders ----