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 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 hemorrhoids Rubble pile, in astronomy, an object consisting of individual pieces of rock that have coalesced under gravity See also Piling (disambiguation) Heap (disambiguation) Pilae stacks Pyle (surname) Pyles (surname)