Pile

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

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
 * The Pile (dataset), a machine learning dataset