I'm European, so please answer me... What's the full word for the lbs weight measurement unit?

Question

I need tthis answer quick. 10 points for the first good answer!

Answer 1

pounds

Answer 2

OK, but I'll only answer you because you're European:

'The abbreviation "lbs." certainly seems like a strange way to write "pounds," until you consider the origin of the word. Like many terms used in science, the word "pound" has a Latin background. It comes from "libra pondo," the Latin expression for a "pound of weight." The English word "pound" comes from "pondo," and the abbreviation "lb." comes from "libra." When you are referring to more than one pound, an "s" is added to the abbreviation to make it plural, so it becomes "lbs." Yahooligans! Reference features a handy tool that helps you convert different units of weight and mass. And make sure to visit our Measurements and Units category to learn more about such weighty matters."

Answer 3

Pounds.

Since (meaning "because" in American speak) I'm late on the draw (meaning I pulled my gun out too slowly so someboy shot me before I could shoot them, in American) here's the reason why it's called "pounds" and abbreviated "lbs."

Both come from the term "libra pondo" which, allowing for variation of measurements over time, was the Latin expression for the same weight unit. The "s" in "lbs" simply makes it plural.

Libra means a balance scale, used to measure weight. Some sources say that "lbs" comes instead from the latin verb pendere, meaning to weigh. Both explanations are common. I don't speak Latin, but I suspect that pondo is a conjugation of pendere.

Answer 4

Pound

Answer 5

You're European and you don't know? lbs is stands for pounds? Why pounds and not dollars the weight measurement. The unit was began in europe.

Answer 6

The Latin word libra describes a Roman unit of weight similar to a pound, and the abbreviations “lb” or “℔” for the unit of weight and the signs £ and ₤ (crossed-out Ls) for the currency derived from this. The word “pound” comes from the Latin pendere, “to weigh”; Latin libra means “scales, balances.”

Answer 7

The Latin word libra describes a Roman unit of weight similar to a pound, and the abbreviation “lb” for the unit of weight and the signs £ and ₤ (crossed-out Ls) for the currency derived from this. The word “pound” comes from the Latin pendere, “to weigh”; Latin libra means “scales, balances.”

Answer 8

1 lb=1 pound=16 ounces

Answer 9

Imperial Measures or (in America) the US Cusomary units. Both are from the old English system of pounds, ounces, pints, quarts, inches, etc.

Is this what you were looking for; the name of the system?

Answer 10

The Latin word for pound is LIBRA. The English abbreviation for pounds comes from the plural abbreviation of the Latin word Libra, meaning pound/scales.

Answer 11

pounds 2.2046 lbs = 1 kilogram