Pound (disambiguation) - Definition and Overview
Pound
may refer to
Pound
, a unit of mass or weight
Pound (currency)
, a unit of
currency
in several countries
The
number sign
#
is sometimes referred to as the pound sign, because in older times some
British
keyboards produced
£
instead of
#
.
Animal shelters
are sometimes known as pounds, as in the
dog pound
Ezra Pound
, a
modernist
poet and critic
There are also a few places named
Pound
in the
United States
:
Pound Ridge, New York
Pound, Virginia
Pound, Wisconsin
Pound (town), Wisconsin
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disambiguation
page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page.
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