Pile

Pile may refer to:

Architecture

• Pile, a type of deep foundation
  • 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

Data processing

• Pile (abstract data type)

Energy

• Atomic pile, early term for a nuclear reactor, typically one constructed of graphite
• Voltaic pile, first modern electric battery

People

• Pile (singer) (born 1988), Japanese voice actress and singer, born Eriko Hori
• General Sir Frederick Alfred Pile, 2nd Baronet and a British army officer who served in both World Wars
• Roger de Piles (1636-1709), French art theorist

Places

• 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
• Grandes-Piles, municipality in Mékinac Regional County Municipality, in Mauricie, Québec, Canada
• 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
• Saint-Jean-des-Piles, Quebec, a past municipality and a sector of Shawinigan City in Québec, Canada

Other uses

• 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 that is not a monolith, consisting instead of numerous pieces of rock that have coalesced under the influence of gravity

See also

• Heap (disambiguation)
• Pilae stacks
• Pyle (surname)
• The Pile (disambiguation)