# Pile

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'''Pile''' or '''Piles''' may refer to:

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==Architecture==
* Pile, a type of [deep foundation](/source/deep_foundation)
** [Screw piles](/source/Screw_piles), used for building deep foundations
** [Pile bridge](/source/Pile_bridge), structure that uses foundations consisting of long poles
** [Pile lighthouse](/source/Pile_lighthouse), a type of skeletal lighthouse, used primarily in Florida, US, and in Australia
*** [Screw-pile lighthouse](/source/Screw-pile_lighthouse), a lighthouse that stands on piles screwed into sandy or muddy sea or river bottoms

==Energy==
* [Atomic pile](/source/Atomic_pile), early term for a nuclear reactor, typically one constructed of graphite
* [Charcoal pile](/source/Charcoal_pile), a structure from wood and turf for production of charcoal
* [Voltaic pile](/source/Voltaic_pile), first modern electric battery
*[Thermoelectric pile](/source/Thermoelectric_pile), a device that converts heat into electricity

==People==
People with the name Pile:
* [Pile (surname)](/source/Pile_(surname))
* [Pile (singer)](/source/Pile_(singer)) (born 1988), Japanese voice actress and singer, born Eriko Hori

People with the name Piles:
* [Roger de Piles](/source/Roger_de_Piles) (1636–1709), French art theorist
* [Samuel H. Piles](/source/Samuel_H._Piles) (1858–1940), American politician, attorney, and diplomat
* [Gerasim Pileš](/source/Gerasim_Pile%C5%A1) (1913–2003), Soviet Chuvash writer, playwright, sculptor, and painter

==Places==
===Europe===
* [Piles, Valencia](/source/Piles%2C_Valencia), a commune in the province of Valence, in Spain
* [Cinq-Mars-la-Pile](/source/Cinq-Mars-la-Pile), a commune of Indre-et-Loire, in the central region of France
* [Les Piles](/source/Les_Piles), a commune in the comarca of Conca de Barberà, in the province of Tarragona, in Spain
* [Port-de-Piles](/source/Port-de-Piles), a commune in Centre-West in France
* [Windscale Piles](/source/Windscale_Piles), a former pair of nuclear reactors in Cumberland, England

===North America===
* [Grandes-Piles, Quebec](/source/Grandes-Piles%2C_Quebec), municipality in Mékinac Regional County Municipality, in Mauricie, Québec, Canada
* [Saint-Jean-des-Piles, Quebec](/source/Saint-Jean-des-Piles%2C_Quebec), a past municipality and a sector of Shawinigan City in Québec, Canada
* [Piles Creek](/source/Piles_Creek), a stream in Union County, New Jersey, United States
* The [Chicago Pile-1](/source/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](/source/World_Trade_Center_site), following the 11 September 2001 attacks

==Other uses==
* [Pile (abstract data type)](/source/Pile_(abstract_data_type))
* [Pile (band)](/source/Pile_(band)), an American indie rock band
* [Pile (heraldry)](/source/Pile_(heraldry)), an ordinary in heraldry, a downward-pointing triangle
* [Pile (textile)](/source/Pile_(textile)), fabric with raised surface made of upright loops or strands of yarn
** [Carpet pile](/source/Carpet_pile)
* "Piles", a common name for [hemorrhoid](/source/hemorrhoid)s
* [Rubble pile](/source/Rubble_pile), in astronomy, an object consisting of individual pieces of rock that have coalesced under gravity
* [The Pile (dataset)](/source/The_Pile_(dataset)), a machine learning dataset

==See also==
* [Piling (disambiguation)](/source/Piling_(disambiguation))
* [Heap (disambiguation)](/source/Heap_(disambiguation))
* [Pilae stacks](/source/Pilae_stacks)
* [Pyle (surname)](/source/Pyle_(surname))
* [Pyles](/source/Pyles) (surname)

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