Pound
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Pound may refer to:
[edit] Units
- Pound (currency), a unit of currency in various countries
- Pound sign, £
- Pound (mass), various units of mass or weight
- Number sign, #, known in the U.S. as the pound sign
- Pound (rail), a unit of rail weight
- Pound-force, a unit of force
[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
- Thaddeus C. Pound, Wisconsin politician
[edit] Places
[edit] United States
[edit] Elsewhere
- Pound Loney, Belfast, Northern Ireland
[edit] Other
- Dog pound, a temporary home for stray, surrendered, or abandoned pet animals
- Buffalo pound (archaic), an enclosed space consisting of a chute and circular corral constructed for the purpose of capturing and killing large numbers of buffalo
- Canal pound, the stretch of level water impounded between two canal locks
- Pound cake, a type of dessert cake
- Pound (greeting), a greeting in which two individuals touch fists
- Pound (networking), an open-source reverse proxy and load balancing program
- Tha Dogg Pound, a music group
- Pound, an American rock band
- A sharp (♯), a musical symbol that resembles the pound sign or number sign (#)
- Pound (film), a 1970 film
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