Pound
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Pound or Pounds may refer to:
Units
- Pound (currency), a unit of currency
- Pound (mass), a unit of mass (or, in non-scientific terms, weight)
- Pound (force), a unit of force
- Rail pound, in rail profile
Symbols
- Pound sign, the symbol for the pound sterling, £
- Number sign (also pound sign), the symbol #
Places
- United States
- Pound, Virginia, a town
- Pound, Wisconsin, a village
- Pound (town), Wisconsin, a town
Media
- Pound (band), an American rock band
- Pound (film), a 1970 film directed and written by Robert Downey, Sr.
- Pound (magazine), a Toronto-based hip hop magazine
Other
- Pound (village), a high-walled, lockable structure in most medieval British villages
- Animal pound, a similar structure
- Pinfold, or poundfold, a related structure
- Animal shelter (also a "pound"), a facility that houses homeless, lost, or abandoned animals
- Pound (networking), a lightweight open source reverse proxy program and application firewall
- Fist bump (also a "pound" or a "fist pound"), a gesture similar in meaning to a handshake or high five
People with the surname
- Cuthbert Winfred Pound (1864–1935), American lawyer and politician from New York
- Dick Pound (born 1942), Canadian lawyer
- Dudley Pound (1877–1943), British naval officer
- Ezra Pound (1885–1972), American expatriate poet and critic
- Jessie Brown Pounds (1861–1921), American writer of gospel songs
- Louise Pound (1872–1958), American folklorist and college professor
- Omar Pound (1926–2010), Anglo-American writer, teacher, and translator
- Robert Pound (1919–2010), American physicist
- Roscoe Pound (1870–1964), American legal scholar and educator
- Stephen Pound (born 1948), British Labour Party politician
- Stephen Bosworth Pound (1833–1911), lawyer, senator and judge
- Thaddeus C. Pound (1833–1914), Wisconsin politician
See also
- All pages with titles containing "pound"
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