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lbf

lbf is the abbreviation of pound-force.

Meaning of pound-force

Noun

pound-force (plural pounds-force)

  1. A unit of force equal to the weight, on earth (subject to standard gravity), of a mass of one avoirdupois pound, equal to about 4.44822 newtons. Symbol lbf or lb_f.
    • The slug is defined as the mass which would accelerate at a rate of 1 ft/s² under a force of one pound-force (lbf). Since 1 lbf is the force exerted on a mass of one pound by a standard gravitational field (of exactly 9.80665 meters per square second), a slug is thus exactly equal to 196133/6096...2000 October 9, Gérard P. Michon, “What is a slug, in the [engineering] weight measurement system?”, in Numericana.com

Proper noun capitalized: LBF

LBF

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Luxembourg Boxing Federation.

Origin of lbf

See lb (“pound”).

Questions about lbf

What is lbf the abbreviation of?
Lbf is the abbreviation of pound-force.
What part of speech is lbf?
Lbf is a proper noun.

Words near lbf in the dictionary

  1. LBBBs
  2. LBC
  3. LBCs
  4. LBD
  5. LBDs
  6. lbf
  7. LBFM
  8. LBFMs
  9. LBFTS
  10. LBH
  11. Lbhalla

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lbf (page history and authors); LBF (page history and authors); pound-force (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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