Pound
# Pound

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
