Pile or Piles may refer to:
Architecture
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Pile, a type of deep foundation
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Screw piles, used for building deep foundations
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Pile bridge, structure that uses foundations consisting of long poles
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Pile lighthouse, a type of skeletal lighthouse, used primarily in Florida, US, and in Australia
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Screw-pile lighthouse, a lighthouse that stands on piles screwed into sandy or muddy sea or river bottoms
Energy
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Atomic pile, early term for a nuclear reactor, typically one constructed of graphite
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Charcoal pile, a structure from wood and turf for production of charcoal
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Voltaic pile, first modern electric battery
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Thermoelectric pile, a device that converts heat into electricity
People
People with the name Pile:
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Pile (surname)
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Pile (singer) (born 1988), Japanese voice actress and singer, born Eriko Hori
People with the name Piles:
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Roger de Piles (1636–1709), French art theorist
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Samuel H. Piles (1858–1940), American politician, attorney, and diplomat
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Gerasim Pileš (1913–2003), Soviet Chuvash writer, playwright, sculptor, and painter
Places
Europe
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Piles, Valencia, a commune in the province of Valence, in Spain
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Cinq-Mars-la-Pile, a commune of Indre-et-Loire, in the central region of France
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Les Piles, a commune in the comarca of Conca de Barberà, in the province of Tarragona, in Spain
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Port-de-Piles, a commune in Centre-West in France
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Windscale Piles, a former pair of nuclear reactors in Cumberland, England
North America
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Grandes-Piles, Quebec, municipality in Mékinac Regional County Municipality, in Mauricie, Québec, Canada
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Saint-Jean-des-Piles, Quebec, a past municipality and a sector of Shawinigan City in Québec, Canada
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Piles Creek, a stream in Union County, New Jersey, United States
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The Chicago Pile-1, the world's first artificial nuclear fission reactor
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The Pile, a common nickname for the ruins of the World Trade Center site, following the 11 September 2001 attacks
Other uses
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Pile (abstract data type)
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Pile (band), an American indie rock band
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Pile (heraldry), an ordinary in heraldry, a downward-pointing triangle
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Pile (textile), fabric with raised surface made of upright loops or strands of yarn
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"Piles", a common name for
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Rubble pile, in astronomy, an object consisting of individual pieces of rock that have coalesced under gravity
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The Pile (dataset), a machine learning dataset
See also
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Piling (disambiguation)
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Heap (disambiguation)
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Pilae stacks
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Pyle (surname)
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Pyles (surname)
