Also a generic
measurement term for the weight of
paper (used in the
United States) that is actually completely and utterly meaningless without a specification for what kind of
paper is being referred to. It is the weight (in pounds) of a
ream of paper, except that there is (was) a strange
standard of what size the sheets of paper in said ream are that relates to how it was convenient to
fold the different types of paper.
If you can help it, I suggest using gsm instead of "pounds" to measure the weight of paper because this particular way of measuring the weight of paper was actually invented by insane englishmen that had spent too much time sniffing glue used in book bindings.
The general kinds of pound measurements for paper are:
(Credit to Adrian Mariano, author of the
GNU units program, where I got much of this information.)
100 gsm ~= 68 pound book (offset) paper ~= 61 pound tag paper ~= 36 pound cover paper ~= 55 pound index paper ~= 27 pound bond paper ~= 32 pound blotting paper ~= 44 pound blanks paper ~= 46 pound postcard paper ~= 20 pound box board ~= a good choice for printing your resume on.