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Brace

Brace(s) or brace may refer to:

Medical

Orthopaedic brace, a device used to restrict or assist body movement
- Back brace, a device limiting motion of the spine
  - Milwaukee brace, a kind of back brace used in the treatment of spinal curvatures
  - Boston brace, a kind of back brace used in the treatment of spinal curvatures
- Cervical collar, also called a neck brace, used to restrict neck movement
Dental braces, a device used to reposition teeth

Clothing

Brace (armor), a shortened form of vambrace
Braces (clothing), elastic fabric straps used to support trousers (known in American English as suspenders)

Construction and industrial arts

Bracing (mechanics), a structural element designed to resist forces
Brace (tool), a hand tool for drilling holes, also known as a bit brace
A reinforcement used in architecture, such as in timber framing
Wheel brace, aka lug wrench, used to remove nuts or bolts holding wheels to a vehicle
Bracing (aeronautics), struts and wires which stiffen and strengthen the airframe
Cross bracing, a system utilized to reinforce building structures in which diagonal supports intersect
Guy-wire, a tensioned cable designed to add stability to a free-standing structure

People

Brace (surname)
Brace (singer) (born 1986), Dutch singer
Brace Arquiza (born 2000), Filipino actor, model, dancer and singer
Brace Beemer (1902–1965), American radio actor and announcer
Brace Belden (born 1989), American leftist

Places

Brace Brook, tributary of the Lackawanna River in Pennsylvania
Brace Farm, historic home and farm in New York
Brace Hill, mountain located in the Catskill Mountains
Brace Mountain, the peak of a ridge in the southern Taconic Mountains
Braces Point, northeast point of Vindication Island, South Sandwich Islands
Meole Brace, suburb of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England

Posture

Brace position, a body stance used to prepare for a crash
Military brace, a body posture primarily used in military schools

Music

Brace (music), connecting two staves
Guitar bracing, internal reinforcements of a classical or acoustic guitar
Brace (album), a 2016 album by Birds of Tokyo
- "Brace" (song), the album's title song
Brace (singer) (born 1986), Dutch singer
DJ Brace (born 1980), DJ and producer

Sports

Brace (sports), a term meaning "scoring twice in a game" in a number of sports (cf., hat-trick)
Brace (MMA), MMA organization

Other meanings

Brace (sailing), the lines used to rotate the yards around the mast
Braces (punctuation), the "{" and "}" symbols, i.e., "curly brackets"
- Curly bracket programming language, a programming language that uses braces
- Bracing style, a type of indent style used in computer programming
"Braces" (Care Bears episode), an episode of Care Bears

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