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Pound
Pound or Pounds may refer to: Units * Pound (currency), a unit 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 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 poun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pound Ridge, New York
Pound Ridge is a town in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 5,104 at the 2010 census. The town is located toward the eastern end of the county, bordered to the north and east by the town of Lewisboro, by Stamford, Connecticut, and New Canaan, Connecticut, to the south, Bedford, New York, and North Castle to the west. History In the early seventeenth century Pound Ridge was inhabited by Native Americans who spoke the Munsee language and were members of the Wappinger Confederacy. The geographical boundaries of the tribes within the Confederacy are unclear. Pound Ridge has been variously listed as within the territory of the Kitchawong, Siwanoy, and Tankiteke bands. The Siwanoy are generally agreed to have lived along the north Long Island Sound Coast with a maximum range extending from Hell Gate to the Five Mile River separating today's Darien, Connecticut, from Rowayton to its east. The Tankiteke appear to have occupied easternmost Westch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pound Sterling
Sterling (abbreviation: stg; Other spelling styles, such as STG and Stg, are also seen. ISO 4217, ISO code: GBP) is the currency of the United Kingdom and nine of #Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories, its associated territories. The Pound (currency), pound (pound sign, sign: £) is the main unit of account, unit of sterling, and the word "pound" is also used to refer to the British currency generally, often qualified in international contexts as the British pound or the pound sterling. Sterling is the world's oldest currency that is still in use and that has been in continuous use since its inception. It is currently the fourth most-traded currency in the foreign exchange market, after the United States dollar, the euro, and the Japanese yen. Together with those three currencies and Renminbi, it forms the basket of currencies which special drawing rights#Value definition, calculate the value of International Monetary Fund, IMF special drawing rights. As of mid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pound, Virginia
Pound is a town in Wise County, Virginia, United States. The population was recorded as 1,037 in the 2010 United States Census. History The Pound area was explored in 1751 by Christopher Gist, and it is traditionally said to be the oldest settlement in Wise County. Also known as "The Pound," the name may derive from a family name, or from a pounding mill built in the area in 1815. The county's first post office was established there in 1848. Pound was not incorporated until 1950, the last town in Wise County to do so. Historically, the town's economy benefited from the area's coal mining industry. In the 1940s, the town had nearly a dozen bars catering to miners from nearby Kentucky. As mining declined in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Pound—like much of Southwest Virginia—saw its economy and tax base collapse. Over the following decades, fiscal and political difficulties led the Virginia General Assembly to pass a law in 2022 that would revoke the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pound (surname)
Pound is the surname of: * Albert Pound (1831-?), American politician and businessman * Cuthbert Winfred Pound (1864–1935), American lawyer and politician from New York * Dick Pound (born 1942), Canadian lawyer * Dudley Pound (1877–1943), British naval officer * Ezra Pound (1885–1972), American expatriate poet and critic * Glenn Simpson Pound (1914-2010), American educator * James Pound (1669–1724), English clergyman and astronomer * Jessie Brown Pounds (1861–1921), American writer of gospel songs * Louise Pound (1872–1958), American folklorist and college professor * Omar Pound (1926–2010), Anglo-American writer, teacher, and translator * Robert Pound (1919–2010), American physicist * Roscoe Pound (1870–1964), American legal scholar and educator * Stephen Pound (born 1948), British Labour Party politician * Stephen Bosworth Pound (1833–1911), lawyer, senator and judge * Thaddeus C. Pound Thaddeus Coleman Pound (December 6, 1832 – November 20 or 21, 1914 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pound, Wisconsin
Pound is a village in Marinette County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 377 at the 2010 census. The village is located within the Town of Pound. Pound is part of the Marinette, WI– MI Micropolitan Statistical Area. History The village and town of Pound were named for Thaddeus Coleman Pound (1832–1914), a Wisconsin state politician and businessman; Pound was the grandfather of the poet Ezra Pound. In 1994 the weight-loss program SlimFast used the town as a trial for its program. Residents believed that SlimFast used the town because of the name Pound; however the company said they used the town because it had the highest rate of obesity in the United States. Geography Pound is located at (45.093795, -88.032899). According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all of it land. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 377 people, 152 households, and 99 families living in the village. The population ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pound (mass)
The pound or pound-mass is a unit of mass used in British imperial and United States customary systems of measurement. Various definitions have been used; the most common today is the international avoirdupois pound, which is legally defined as exactly , and which is divided into 16 avoirdupois ounces. The international standard symbol for the avoirdupois pound is lb; an alternative symbol is lbm (for most pound definitions), # ( chiefly in the U.S.), and or ″̶ (specifically for the apothecaries' pound). The unit is descended from the Roman (hence the abbreviation "lb"). The English word ''pound'' is cognate with, among others, German , Dutch , and Swedish . These units are historic and are no longer used (replaced by the metric system). Usage of the unqualified term ''pound'' reflects the historical conflation of mass and weight. This accounts for the modern distinguishing terms ''pound-mass'' and ''pound-force''. Etymology The word 'pound' and its cognate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pound (currency)
Pound is the name for a unit of currency. It is used in some countries today and previously was used in many others. The English word ''pound'' derives from the Latin expression , in which lībra is a noun meaning "pound" and ''pondō'' is an adverb meaning "by weight". The currency's symbol is £, a stylised form of the blackletter L (\mathfrak) (from ''libra''), crossed to indicate abbreviation. The term was adopted in England from the weight of silver used to make to 240 pennies, and eventually spread to British colonies all over the world. While silver pennies were produced seven centuries earlier, the first pound coin was minted under Henry VII in 1489. Countries and territories currently using currency units named "pound" Historical currencies * Australian pound (until 1966, replaced by the Australian dollar). The Australian pound was also used in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Nauru, New Hebrides and Papua and New Guinea. It was replaced in the New Hebrides/V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pound (force)
The pound of force or pound-force (symbol: lbf, sometimes lbf,) is a unit of force used in some systems of measurement, including English Engineering units and the foot–pound–second system. Pound-force should not be confused with pound-mass (lb), often simply called ''pound'', which is a unit of mass, nor should these be confused with foot-pound (ft⋅lbf), a unit of energy, or pound-foot (lbf⋅ft), a unit of torque. Definitions The pound-force is equal to the gravitational force exerted on a mass of one avoirdupois pound on the surface of Earth. Since the 18th century, the unit has been used in low-precision measurements, for which small changes in Earth's gravity (which varies from equator to pole by up to half a percent) can safely be neglected. The 20th century, however, brought the need for a more precise definition, requiring a standardized value for acceleration due to gravity. Product of avoirdupois pound and standard gravity The pound-force is the pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pound (networking)
Pound is a lightweight open source reverse proxy program and application firewall suitable to be used as a web server load balancing solution. Developed by an IT security company, it has a strong emphasis on security. The original intent on developing Pound was to allow distributing the load among several Zope servers running on top of ZEO (Zope Extensible Object). However, Pound is not limited to Zope-based installations. Using regular expression matching on the requested URLs, Pound can pass different kinds of requests to different backend server groups. A few more of its most important features: * detects when a backend server fails or recovers, and bases its load balancing decisions on this information: if a backend server fails, it will not receive requests until it recovers * decrypts requests to Hypertext Transfer Protocol, http ones * IPv6 support * can load balance from IPv6 clients to IPv4 servers and vice versa * rejects incorrect requests * can be used in a chroot env ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pound (band)
Pound (later Flywheel) was an American rock band from Poughkeepsie, New York. History Four of the members of Pound were in a New York glam metal band in the early 1990s. Later in the decade, they went on to be signed with EMI Music Publishing working closely with then EMI V.P. Evan Lamberg. Shortly after recording what was to be their first self-titled release they parted ways with original singer Corey Ray DiGiovanni and changed stylistically. In 1999, they signed with Island Records and released their debut album, ''Same Old Life'', produced by Tom Lord-Alge. The album's lead single, "Upside Down", which was co-written by original lead singer Corey Ray DiGiovanni, was a rock radio hit in America, reaching No. 16 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart that year.Billboard Singles Allmusic.com The group left Island in 2000 and reconstituted itself as Flywheel; its first album under the new name was released in 2003. A follow-up release, also self-titled, appeared in 2005 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pound (magazine)
''Pound'' was a Toronto-based hip hop magazine that was distributed for free across Canada. Founded in 1998 and beginning publication in December 1999, ''Pound'' was published quarterly. It ceased publishing in 2010, after releasing its 45th issue. History ''Pound'' was founded by Rodrigo Bascunan, Andrew Cappell, Kostas Pagiamtzis and Christian Pearce in May 1998. Its current editor is Rodrigo Bascunan. Since its inception, the magazine was known for its sense of humor and political content, specifically the "Babylon System" column that would eventually spawn a book. The magazine has featured many luminaries in its pages, often highlighting artists before their big breaks. ''Pound'' has won the Canadian Urban Music Awards (CUMA) Publication of The Year in 2004 and 2005. The awards have not been handed out since. ''Pound Magazine Latin America'' was founded by Javier Carmona in Chile, the first issue in Spanish was released in Santiago de Chile on 1 January 2010. ''Pound Magazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pound Sign
The pound sign is the symbol for the pound unit of sterling – the currency of the United Kingdom and previously of Great Britain and of the Kingdom of England. The same symbol is used for other currencies called pound, such as the Gibraltar, Egyptian, Manx and Syrian pounds. The sign may be drawn with one or two bars depending on personal preference, but the Bank of England has used the one-bar style exclusively on banknotes since 1975. In Canada and the United States, "pound sign" refers to the symbol (number sign). Origin The symbol derives from the upper case Latin letter , representing ''libra pondo'', the basic unit of weight in the Roman Empire, which in turn is derived from the Latin word, ''libra'', meaning scales or a balance. The pound became an English unit of weight and in England became defined as the tower pound (equivalent to 350 grams) of sterling silver. According to the Royal Mint Museum: However, the simple letter L, in lower- or uppercase, was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
