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pound (a unit of measurement equal to 16 ounces avoirdupois)

unit of measurement, unit of mass, imperial unit of measurement, US customary unit
Wikipedia Page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_(mass)
Equivalent to
0.45359237 and kilogram, 0.453592369999999 and kilogram
Class
US customary unit, imperial unit of measurement, unit of measurement, unit of mass
First Unit of
pounds and ounces
Second Unit of
stones and pounds
Optimum Conversion Unit of
▶
kilogram, ton, stone, ounce, short ton,  …
Wordnet Synset ID
"113720096"
Optimum Conversion Unit
kilogram
Freebase ID
"/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000002e4a6"
DBPedia URI
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Pound_%28mass%29
Aliases
"pound", "lb"
Related Websites
http://ts.nist.gov/WeightsAndMeasures/h130-04.cfm, http://physics.nist.gov/Pubs/SP811/appenB9.html#MASSinertia, http://education.yahoo.com/reference/weights_and_measures/index?p=weight_and_mass
Freebase Primary MID
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pound avoirdupois
Why the pound avoirdupois replaced the liber mercatoria. The first reason is 15 ounces to the pound. The mere fact that 15 is not an even number counts ...
http://www.sizes.com/units/pound_avoirdupois.htm
pound Facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...
The avoirdupois pound (lb avdp) is now defined in terms of the kilogram, the metric unit of ... Facts and information from other sites. pound at HighBeam Research; pound on Wikipedia
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/pound.aspx
Pound facts - Freebase
Facts and figures about Pound, taken from Freebase, the world's database. ... have been used, the most common today being the international avoirdupois pound ...
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