A silo is a structure for storing bulk materials.

Silo or SILO may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

  • Silo (film), a 2019 American thriller drama film
  • Silo (series), a series of science fiction novellas by Hugh Howey
  • Silo (TV series), a television series adapted from the novellas
  • A title character of Sam and Silo, an American comic strip that ran from 1977 to 2017

Computing

  • Data silo, a type of information silo
  • SILO (boot loader), used in Linux
  • Silo (library), a data file format and library for scientific model data
  • Silo (software), a 3D modeling software

People

  • Abronius Silo, 1st century BC Latin poet
  • Quintus Poppaedius Silo (died 88 BC), leader of the Italian tribe of the Marsi
  • Silo of Asturias, king of Asturias (in Spain) from 774 to 783
  • Mario Rodríguez Cobos (1938–2010), Argentine writer and founder of the Humanist Movement also known as Silo
  • Adam Silo (1674–1760), Dutch painter
  • Susan Silo (born 1942), American actress
  • Talal Silo (born 1965), Syrian Turkmen defector

Places

  • Silo, Oklahoma, a town in the United States
  • Šilo, a village in Croatia
  • Silo Canal, Brandenburg, Germany
  • The Silo (Copenhagen), Denmark

Businesses and companies

  • Silo (store), an American chain of retail electronics stores
  • Silo Theatre, a New Zealand theatre production company
  • The Silo, a Lesotho agricultural newspaper
  • Silo (restaurant), a zero-waste restaurant in London

Zoology

  • Silo (insect), a genus of insects in the order Trichoptera
  • Roy and Silo, a chinstrap penguin pair

Other uses

  • Silo High School, Durant, Oklahoma, United States
  • School Infrastructure Local Option, a sales tax in Iowa, United States
  • Missile silo, an underground missile launching facility
  • Information silo, a management system incapable of reciprocal operation with other, related management systems
  • Silastic silo, used to treat abdominal wall defects

See also

  • Shilo (disambiguation)