Pound Abbreviation Math
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Pound abbreviation math. Looking for the abbreviation of pound. It stands for the unit of weight pound. Lbs is an abbreviation already and doesn t get abbreviated further. The primary meaning of libra was balance or scales as in the astrological sign but it also stood for the ancient roman unit of measure libra pondo.
A pound sterling was a tower pound of silver but the standard was changed to the troy pound in 1528. The unit is descended from the roman libra hence the abbreviation lb. The tower pound merchant s pound and london pound are all obsolete units. The imperial standard pound is defined as having a mass equal to 0 45359237 kilograms which matches the definition of the international pound as agreed upon although not adopted by the u s in 1959.
The english word pound is cognate with among others german pfund dutch pond and swedish pund all ultimately derive from a borrowing into proto germanic of the latin expression lībra pondō the weight measured in libra in which the word pondō is the ablative case of the latin noun pondus weight.