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'''Pile''' or '''Piles''' may refer to:
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==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 [[hemorrhoid]]s
* [[Rubble pile]], in astronomy, an object consisting of individual pieces of rock that have coalesced under gravity
* [[The Pile (dataset)]], a machine learning dataset
==See also==
* [[Piling (disambiguation)]]
* [[Heap (disambiguation)]]
* [[Pilae stacks]]
* [[Pyle (surname)]]
* [[Pyles]] (surname)
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