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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
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