Pound
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Pound may refer to:
[edit] Units
- Pound (currency), a unit of currency in various countries
- Pound sign, £
- Pound sterling, the fundamental unit of currency in Great Britain
- Pound-force, unit of force
- Pound (mass), various units of mass or weight
- Number sign (#), sometimes used as "pound sign"
- Pound (rail), a unit of size for railroad (train) rails
[edit] 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, 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
- 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, 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 (band), an American rock band
- Pound (magazine), a Canadian hip-hop magazine
- A Sharp (music) (♯), a musical symbol (from resemblance to # used as a pound sign)
- Pound (film), a 1970 film
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