Pound Explained

Pound or Pounds may refer to:

Units

• Pound (currency), various units of currency
• Pound sterling, the official currency of the United Kingdom
• Pound (mass), a unit of mass
• Pound (force), a unit of force
• Rail pound, in rail profile
• A basis weight of paper, related to grammage

Symbols

• Pound sign, the symbol for the pound sterling, £
• Number sign (also pound sign), the symbol #

Places in the United States

• Pound, Virginia, a town
• Pound, Wisconsin, a village
• Pound (town), Wisconsin, a town
• Pound Ridge, New York, a town

Entertainment

• Pound (band), an American rock band
• Pound (film), a 1970 film directed and written by Robert Downey, Sr.

Other uses

• Pound (surname), a list of people
• Animal shelter (also a "pound"), a facility that houses homeless, lost, or abandoned animals
• Animal pound, a similar structure
• Canal pound, the stretch of level water impounded between two canal locks
• Fist bump (also a "pound" or a "fist pound"), a gesture similar in meaning to a handshake or high five
• Buffalo pound, a hunting structure used by indigenous North Americans to trap bison (buffalo)
• Pound (networking), a lightweight open source reverse proxy program and application firewall
• Pound (magazine), a Toronto-based hip hop magazine
• Pounds, shillings and pence or £sd, British and other European pre-decimal currency
• Vehicle impoundment

See also

• • Pond (disambiguation)