Pound
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Pound may refer to:
[edit] Units
- Pound (mass), various units of mass or weight
- The number sign, #, known in the US as a pound sign.
- Pound (rail), a unit of rail weight
- Pound-force, a unit of force
- Pound (currency) (disambiguation page), a unit of currency in various countries
- Pound symbol, ₤, pound sign
[edit] People
- Dick Pound, Canadian sports official
- Dudley Pound, British naval officer
- Ezra Pound, American modernist poet and critic
- Louise Pound, American educator
- Olivia Pound, American educator
- R. V. Pound, physicist, eponym of the Pound-Rebka experiment
- Roscoe Pound, American legal scholar
- Stephen Pound, British politician
- Stephen Bosworth Pound, American senator and judge
[edit] Other
- Tha Dogg Pound, a music group
- Canal pound, the stretch of level water impounded between two canal locks
- A pound (greeting) is a greeting in which two individuals touch fists
- Pound (networking), an open-source reverse proxy and load balancing program
- Dog pound, an archaic term referring to temporary homes for stray, surrendered, or abandoned pet animals
- Pound as a verb means to grind with or as with a mortar and pestle, to strike or hit something (pound the keys of a typewriter, pound the table).
