PILE PILE 1. Polytechnic's Instructional Language for Educators. Similar in use to an enhanced PILOT, but structurally more like Pascal with Awk-like associative arrays optionally stored on disk. Distributed to about 50 sites by Initial Teaching Alphabet Foundation for Apple II and CP/M. ["A Universal Computer Aided Instruction System," Henry G. Dietz & Ronald J Juels, Proc Natl Educ Computing Conf '83, pp.279-282]. 2. ["PILE _ A Language for Sound Synthesis", P. Berg, Computer Music Journal 3.1, 1979].
pile a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy
pile driver a machine that drives piling into the ground
pile dwelling dwelling built on piles in or near a lake; specifically in prehistoric villages
pile up collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up"