A unit of force: the force exerted by one standard gravity on a one-pound mass.
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Examples for "pound "
1 Semihard; blue; goat; mellow; small; square; a quarter to a half pound .
2 The portfolio generated a 17 million pound loss last year, Lloyds said.
3 The second problem is the likely boost to an already appreciating pound .
4 BNY avoided a 180 million pound fine by settling the case early.
5 In Europe, Britain's fourth-quarter growth data looms large for the embattled pound .
1 The quantity of provisions I found in the boat was 150 lb .
2 The heaviest fruit within the ken of the writer weighed 8 lb .
3 In the U.S. retail market, sugar fetches about 20 cents a lb .
4 Each degree of hardness indicates the destruction and waste of 12 lb .
5 The weight of the usual projectile for this mortar is 850 lb .
1 Of note is that the impact force increased nearly 500 lbf from the first to the sixth drop, with a five-minute rest between falls.
2 The difference between a five-minute and a 24-hour rest for the second drop, for example, was a decrease of only 102 lbf .
3 I returned to the LBF offices, and looked out the window.
4 None of these books will appear at the 2012 LBF .
5 The revised LBF grant programmes will kick in from April.
1 Nothing has actually changed about the ten- pound weight - except your perception of it.
2 She felt as though she had a ten-thousand- pound weight on her shoulders.
3 I feel as if a thousand- pound weight was taken off my back.
4 We have killed this morning four fish averaging a pound weight each.
5 It was as if each thought came with a thousand- pound weight .
1 They set to work with every pound of force they could bring to the front.
2 One pound of force is about 4.45 newtons.
3 As Wendy rose holding the golf club, Bonnie swung the crutch, putting every foot- pound of force she could muster into the swing.
4 The cadavers' ligaments blew apart just after 40 pounds of force .
5 The software calculated the force the thrusters needed to exert in pounds of force .
1 It also requires technology capable of handling pressure of 20,000 pound - force per square inch.
2 Three grip measurements for each hand were recorded in pounds - force ; the mean of these 3 assessments was used in the analysis.
3 "It would take eighty thousand pound - force to pull this train, Mr. Socrates," he said.
4 So a person who weighs 700 newtons on the surface of the Earth (about 157 pounds - force ) would weigh only 265 newtons on Mars.
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