A branch drain accepting waste products delivered to it vertically, by gravity, from one or more similar but usually smaller fixtures, and conducting them horizontally to the primary disposal drain.
When the Minuteman III retires, the silos and launch facilities at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, which oversees 150 nuclear ICBMs scattered across a 13,800 square miles, will have been buried for 70 years.
A data silo is a repository of fixed data that remains under the control of one department and is isolated from the rest of the organization, much like grain in a farm silo is closed off from outside elements. Data silos can have technical or cultural roots. Download this free guide.