Pile

Pile or Piles may refer to:

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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

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

People with the name Pile:

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

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

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

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