In the United States, a kip is a unit of force that equals 1,000 pounds-force, used primarily by architects and engineers to measure engineering loads. In Physics, a force is whatever can cause an object with Mass to Accelerate. This article deals with the unit of force For the unit of mass see Pound (mass. It is also used as a unit of weight to compute shipping charges. In the Physical sciences weight is a Measurement of the gravitational Force acting on an object It is equivalent to one half of a U. S. ton. The short ton ( S/T) is a unit of mass equal to 2000 lb (around 907 Although uncommon, it is occasionally also considered a unit of mass, equal to 1,000 pounds. Mass is a fundamental concept in Physics, roughly corresponding to the Intuitive idea of how much Matter there is in an object The pound or pound-mass (abbreviation lb, lbm, or sometimes in the United States #) is a unit of Mass

The name comes from combining the words "kilo" and "pound"; it is occasionally called a kilopound. Its symbol is kip, or less frequently, klb. When it is necessary to clearly distinguish it as a unit of force rather than mass, it is sometimes called the kip-force (symbol kipf or klbf). Note that the symbol kp usually stands for a different unit of force, the kilopond or kilogram-force. The unit kilogram-force ( kgf, often incorrectly just kg) or kilopond ( kp) is defined as the Force exerted by Earth's gravity

The kip is also the name of obsolete units of measure in England and Malaysia. ^[1]

See also

• Conversion of Force Units
• Conversion of Mass Units

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