Pile or Piles may refer to:

Architecture

* Pile, a type of

deep foundation A pile or piling is a vertical structural element of a deep foundation, driven or drilled deep into the ground at the building site. A deep foundation is a type of foundation (architecture), foundation that transfers building loads to the e ...

** Screw piles, used for building deep foundations **

Pile bridge A pile bridge is a structure that uses foundations consisting of long poles (referred to as piles), which are made of wood, concrete or steel and which are hammered into the soft soils beneath the bridge until the end of the pile reaches a hard ...

, 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 upright=1.2, Schematic diagram of a copper–zinc voltaic pile. Each copper–zinc pair had a spacer in the middle, made of cardboard or felt soaked in salt water (the electrolyte). Volta's original piles contained an additional zinc disk at the ...

, first modern electric battery

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 Roger de Piles (7 October 1635 – 5 April 1709) was a French painter, engraver, art critic and diplomat. Life Born in Clamecy, Nievre, Clamecy, Roger de Piles studied philosophy and theology, and devoted himself to painting. In 1662 he became ...

(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 The Windscale Piles were two air-cooled graphite-moderated reactor, graphite-moderated nuclear reactors on the Windscale nuclear site in Cumberland (now known as Sellafield, Sellafield site, Cumbria) on the north-west coast of England. The two r ...

, 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 Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1) was the first artificial nuclear reactor. On 2 December 1942, the first human-made self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was initiated in CP-1 during an experiment led by Enrico Fermi. The secret development of the react ...

, the world's first artificial nuclear fission reactor * The Pile, a common nickname for the ruins of the

World Trade Center site The World Trade Center site, often referred to as " Ground Zero" or "the Pile" immediately after the September 11 attacks, is a 14.6-acre (5.9 ha) area in Lower Manhattan in New York City. The site is bounded by Vesey Street to the north ...

, following the 11 September 2001 attacks

Other uses

* Pile (abstract data type) * Pile (band), an American indie rock band *

Pile (heraldry) In heraldry, a pile is a charge (heraldry), charge usually counted as one of the ordinary (heraldry), ordinaries (figures bounded by straight lines and occupying a definite portion of the shield). It consists of a wedge emerging from the upper e ...

, an ordinary in heraldry, a downward-pointing triangle *

Pile (textile) Pile is the raised surface or nap of a fabric, consisting of upright loops or strands of yarn."Pile." ''The Oxford English Dictionary''. 2nd ed. 1989. Examples of pile textiles are carpets, corduroy, velvet, plush, and Turkish towels ( terr ...

, fabric with raised surface made of upright loops or strands of yarn ** Carpet pile * "Piles", a common name for

hemorrhoid Hemorrhoids (or haemorrhoids), also known as piles, are vascular structures in the anal canal. In their normal state, they are cushions that help with stool control. They become a disease when swollen or inflamed; the unqualified term ''h ...

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Rubble pile In astronomy, a rubble pile is a celestial body that consists of numerous pieces of debris that have coalesced under the influence of gravity. Rubble piles have low density because there are large cavities between the various chunks that make the ...

, in astronomy, an object consisting of individual pieces of rock that have coalesced under gravity * The Pile (dataset), a machine learning dataset