Pile or Piles may refer to:

Architecture

* Pile, a type of

deep foundation A deep foundation is a type of foundation that transfers building loads to the earth farther down from the surface than a shallow foundation does to a subsurface layer or a range of depths. A pile or piling is a vertical structural eleme ...

Screw piles Screw piles, sometimes referred to as screw-piles, screw piers, screw anchors, screw foundations, ground screws, helical piles, helical piers, or helical anchors are a steel screw-in piling and ground anchoring system used for building deep foun ...

, 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 pile lighthouse is a type of lighthouse found in Australia and the United States. In the United States they are found primarily in Florida, including on open coral reef, reefs adjacent to the Florida Keys. The pile lighthouses on the reefs in ...

, 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. Constructio ...

, 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 or nuclear fusion reactions. Nuclear reactors are used at nuclear power plants for electricity generation and in nuclear marine propulsion. Heat from n ...

, 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 la ...

, a structure from wood and turf for production of charcoal *

Voltaic pile upright=1.2, Schematic diagram of a copper–zinc voltaic pile. The copper and zinc discs were separated by cardboard or felt spacers soaked in salt water (the electrolyte). Volta's original piles contained an additional zinc disk at the bottom, ...

, first modern electric battery

People

People with the name Pile: * Pile (surname) *

Pile (singer) , better known by her stage name Pile, is a Japanese singer, actress and voice actress from Tokyo. Her first roles were minor parts in TV series and films during 2006. She debuted as a singer after she was selected in a 2006 Japan-wide audition a ...

(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, Roger de Piles studied philosophy and theology, and devoted himself to painting. In 1662 he became tutor to Miche ...

(1636–1709), French art theorist * Samuel H. Piles (1858–1940), American politician, attorney, and diplomat *

Gerasim Pileš Gerasim Pileš ( Chuvash & russian: link=no, Харлампьев Герасим Дмитриевич, February 2, 1913, Man Toktash village, Russia – November 2, 2003, Cheboksary, Chuvash Republic, Russia) – a Soviet Chuvash writer playwrig ...

(1913–2003), Soviet Chuvash writer, playwright, sculptor, and painter

Places

Europe

Piles, Valencia Piles () is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of Safor Safor () is a ''comarca'' within the province of Valencia, Spain. The capital is the city of Gandia, but also includes the towns of Oliva, Piles and Daimús, among others. The beach ...

, 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 wel ...

, a commune of Indre-et-Loire, in the central region of France *

Les Piles Les Piles is a village in the province of Tarragona Tarragona (, ; Phoenician: ''Tarqon''; la, Tarraco) is a port city located in northeast Spain on the Costa Daurada by the Mediterranean Sea. Founded before the fifth century BC, it is the ...

, 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 In geography, regions, otherwise referred to as zones, lands or territories, are areas that are broadly divided by physical characteristics (physical geogra ...

, a commune in Centre-West in France * Windscale Piles, a former pair of nuclear reactors in Cumberland, England

North America

Grandes-Piles, Quebec Grandes-Piles is a village municipality in the Mauricie region of the province of Quebec in Canada. Geography Located in Radnor Township, this small village is located on a cliff at north of Grand-Mère, overlooking the Saint-Maurice River o ...

, municipality in Mékinac Regional County Municipality, in Mauricie, Québec, Canada *

Saint-Jean-des-Piles, Quebec Saint-Jean-des-Piles ( Canada 1996 Census population 693) is a community in the Canadian province of Quebec. Formerly a separate parish municipality in the Le Centre-de-la-Mauricie Regional County Municipality Le Centre-de-la-Mauricie was a f ...

, a past municipality and a sector of Shawinigan City in Québec, Canada *

Piles Creek Hemorrhoids (or haemorrhoids), also known as piles, are sinusoid (blood vessel), vascular structures in the anal canal. In their normal state, they are cushions that help with Human feces, stool control. They become a disease when swelling (m ...

, a stream in Union County, New Jersey, United States * The

Chicago Pile-1 Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1) was the world's 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 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. Ordered double-ended queue Th ...

Pile (band) Pile is an American indie rock Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand from the 1970s to the 1980s. Originally used to describe independent record labels, the term became ass ...

, an American indie rock band *

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

, 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. The wo ...

, 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, are ...

* "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 ''he ...

s *

Rubble pile In astronomy, a rubble pile is a celestial body that is not a monolith, consisting instead of numerous pieces of rock that have coalesced under the influence of gravity. Rubble piles have low density because there are large cavities between the ...

, in astronomy, an object consisting of individual pieces of rock that have coalesced under gravity