Pile

Pile or Piles may refer to:

Architecture

• Pile, a type of deep foundation
  • Screw piles, used for building deep foundations
  • Pile bridge, structure that uses foundations consisting of long poles
  • Pile lighthouse, a type of skeletal lighthouse, used primarily in Florida, US, and in Australia
    • Screw-pile lighthouse, a lighthouse that stands on piles screwed into sandy or muddy sea or river bottoms

Energy

• Atomic pile, early term for a nuclear reactor, typically one constructed of graphite
• Charcoal pile, a structure from wood and turf for production of charcoal
• Voltaic pile, first modern electric battery
• Thermoelectric pile, a device that converts heat into electricity

People

People with the name Pile:

• Pile (surname)
• Pile (singer) (born 1988), Japanese voice actress and singer, born Eriko Hori

People with the name Piles:

• Roger de Piles (1636–1709), French art theorist
• Samuel H. Piles (1858–1940), American politician, attorney, and diplomat
• Gerasim Pileš (1913–2003), Soviet Chuvash writer, playwright, sculptor, and painter

Places

Europe

• Piles, Valencia, a commune in the province of Valence, in Spain
• Cinq-Mars-la-Pile, a commune of Indre-et-Loire, in the central region of France
• Les Piles, a commune in the comarca of Conca de Barberà, in the province of Tarragona, in Spain
• Port-de-Piles, a commune in Centre-West in France
• Windscale Piles, a former pair of nuclear reactors in Cumberland, England

North America

• Grandes-Piles, Quebec, municipality in Mékinac Regional County Municipality, in Mauricie, Québec, Canada
• Saint-Jean-des-Piles, Quebec, a past municipality and a sector of Shawinigan City in Québec, Canada
• Piles Creek, a stream in Union County, New Jersey, United States
• The Chicago Pile-1, the world's first artificial nuclear fission reactor
• The Pile, a common nickname for the ruins of the World Trade Center site, following the 11 September 2001 attacks

Other uses

• Pile (abstract data type)
• Pile (band), an American indie rock band
• Pile (heraldry), an ordinary in heraldry, a downward-pointing triangle
• Pile (textile), fabric with raised surface made of upright loops or strands of yarn
  • Carpet pile
• "Piles", a common name for hemorrhoids
• Rubble pile, in astronomy, an object consisting of individual pieces of rock that have coalesced under gravity
• The Pile (dataset), a machine learning dataset

See also

• Piling (disambiguation)
• Heap (disambiguation)
• Pilae stacks
• Pyle (surname)
• Pyles (surname)