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

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