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 screw-pile lighthouse is a lighthouse which stands on piles that are screwed into sandy or muddy sea or river bottoms. The first screw-pile lighthouse to begin construction was built by the blind Irish engineer Alexander Mitchell. Constructi ...

, a lighthouse that stands on piles screwed into sandy or muddy sea or river bottoms

Energy

Atomic pile A nuclear reactor is a device used to initiate and control a fission nuclear chain reaction. They are used for commercial electricity, marine propulsion, weapons production and research. Fissile nuclei (primarily uranium-235 or plutonium-239 ...

, early term for a nuclear reactor, typically one constructed of graphite *

Charcoal pile A charcoal pile or charcoal clamp is a carefully arranged pile of wood, covered by turf or other layer, inside which a fire is lit in order to produce charcoal. The pile is tended by a charcoal burner. It is similar to a charcoal kiln, but the lat ...

, 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 * 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 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 Samuel Henry Piles (December 28, 1858March 11, 1940) was an American politician, attorney, and diplomat who served as a United States senator from Washington (U.S. state), Washington. Early life Piles was born near Smithland, Kentucky, the son ...

(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 Cinq-Mars-la-Pile () is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France. Population Sights * Pile of Cinq-Mars: the town derives its name from a thirty metres high, brick Roman tower perched on the hillside. It is remarkably w ...

, 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 Port-de-Piles () is a commune in the Vienne department and the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, western France. Demographics See also *Communes of the Vienne department The following is a list of the 265 communes of the Vienne department of ...

, 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 Grandes-Piles () is a village municipality (Quebec), village municipality in the Mauricie Quebec region, region of the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec in Canada. The name of Grandes-Piles (literally "large piles") has unc ...

, 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) In computer science, a pile is an abstract data type for storing data in a loosely ordered way. There are two different usages of the term; one refers to an ordered double-ended queue, the other to an improved Heap (data structure), heap. Ordered ...

Pile (band) Pile is an American indie rock band from Boston, Massachusetts. Starting as the solo act of Rick Maguire in the late 2000s, Pile has been a collective since the release of ''Magic Isn't Real'' in 2010. To date, Pile has released eight full-leng ...

, 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 A knotted-pile carpet is a carpet containing raised surfaces, or piles, from the cut off ends of knots woven between the warp and weft. The Ghiordes/Turkish knot and the Senneh/Persian knot, typical of Anatolian carpets and Persian carpets, ar ...

* "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 ...

s *

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) The Pile is an 886.03 GB diverse, open-source dataset of English text created as a training dataset for large language models (LLMs). It was constructed by EleutherAI in 2020 and publicly released on December 31 of that year. It is composed of 2 ...

, a machine learning dataset