• @47Toast@feddit.org
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    212 months ago

    Pound is both. There are two units that both are named pound, one is for mass, the other for force.

    • @WR5@lemmy.world
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      12 months ago

      This is generally referred to as pound-force (lbf) instead of just pound (lb). At least, that’s what we use at my engineering firm when converting from Newtons so I may be misinformed.