# Pound

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**Pound** or **Pounds** may refer to:

## Units

- [Pound (currency)](/source/Pound_(currency)), various units of currency
- [Pound sterling](/source/Pound_sterling), the official currency of the United Kingdom
- [Pound (mass)](/source/Pound_(mass)), a unit of mass
- [Pound (force)](/source/Pound_(force)), a unit of force
- Rail pound, in [rail profile](/source/Rail_profile)
- A basis weight of paper, related to [grammage](/source/Grammage)

## Symbols

- [Pound sign](/source/Pound_sign), £, the symbol for the pound as a unit of currency
- [Number sign](/source/Number_sign) (also pound sign), the symbol #

## Places in the United States

- [Pound, Virginia](/source/Pound,_Virginia), a town
- [Pound, Wisconsin](/source/Pound,_Wisconsin), a village
- [Pound (town), Wisconsin](/source/Pound_(town),_Wisconsin), a town
- [Pound Ridge, New York](/source/Pound_Ridge,_New_York), a town

## Entertainment

- [Pound (band)](/source/Pound_(band)), an American rock band
- [*Pound* (film)](/source/Pound_(film)), a 1970 film directed and written by Robert Downey, Sr.
- Nerdluck Pound, a fictional alien character in the 1996 animated film *[Space Jam](/source/Space_Jam)*

## Other uses

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

## See also

- [Pond (disambiguation)](/source/Pond_(disambiguation))

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