Pound
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Pound may refer to:
Units
- Pound (currency) The pound, a unit of currency, originated in England as the value of a pound of silver. Historically, £1 worth of silver coins were a troy pound in weight; as of October 2009 this amount of silver is worth approximately £130, a unit of currency in various countries (further disambiguation)
- Pound sign The pound sign is the symbol for the pound sterling—the currency of the United Kingdom (UK). The same symbol is (or was) used for similarly named currencies in some other countries and territories, such as the Irish pound and Gibraltar pound; there are other countries[vague] whose currency is called "the pound", but that do not use the, £
- Pound-force The pound-force or simply pound is a unit of force, unit of force
- Pound (mass) The pound or pound-mass is a unit of mass used in the imperial, United States customary and other systems of measurement. A number of different definitions have been used, the most common today being the international avoirdupois pound of exactly 0.45359237 kilograms, various units of mass or weight
- Number sign Number sign is a name for the symbol #, which is used for a variety of purposes including, in some countries, the designation of a number . "Number sign" is the preferred Unicode name for the code point. Its Unicode code point is U+0023, and its ASCII value is 35 (0x23 in hexadecimal). The html entity is # or # (#), sometimes referred to as the "pound sign"
- Pound (rail), a unit of size for railroad (train) rails
People
- Cuthbert W. Pound (1864–1935), Chief Judge of the NY Court of Appeals 1932-1934
- Dick Pound, Canadian sports official
- Dudley Pound, British naval officer
- Ezra Pound Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet and critic who was a major figure of the Modernist movement in the first half of the 20th century, 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 Nathan Roscoe Pound was a distinguished American legal scholar and educator, American legal scholar
- Stephen Pound, British politician
- Stephen Bosworth Pound, American senator and judge
- Thaddeus C. Pound, Wisconsin politician
Places
United States
Elsewhere
- Pound Loney, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Other
- Pound (village), a high-walled, lockable structure featured in most medieval British villages, used for temporary holding
- Dog pound, a temporary home for pet animals
- Buffalo pound (archaic), an enclosed space, for capturing and killing large numbers of buffalo
- Canal pound, the stretch of level water impounded between two canal locks
- Pound cake Pound cake refers to a type of cake traditionally made with a pound of each of four ingredients: flour, butter, eggs, and sugar. However, the quantity is often changed to suit the size of the cake that is desired. As long as the ratio is preserved, the resulting cake will generally be very similar to that using the traditional quantities. Hence,, a type of dessert cake
- Pound (greeting), a greeting in which two individuals touch fists
- Pound (networking) Pound is a lightweight open source reverse proxy program suitable to be used as a web server load balancing solution. Developed by an IT security company, it has a strong emphasis on security. The original intent on developing Pound was to allow distributing the load among several Zope servers running on top of ZEO . However, Pound is not limited, an open-source reverse proxy and load balancing program
- Tha Dogg Pound, a music group
- Pound (band), an American rock band
- Pound (magazine), a Canadian hip-hop magazine
- A Sharp (music) In music, sharp means higher in pitch. More specifically, in musical notation, sharp means "higher in pitch by a semitone ," and has an associated symbol (♯), which is often confused with the number (hash) sign (#). The hash sign has two horizontal lines and two slanted lines, while the sharp sign has two vertical lines and two slanted (♯), a musical symbol (from resemblance to # used as a pound sign)
- Pound (film), a 1970 film
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