Brace
For the surname, see Brace (surname).
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Brace may refer to:
Medical
- Brace (orthopaedic), 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
- Cervical collar, also called a neck brace, used to restrict neck movement
- Dental braces, a device used to reposition teeth
Construction and industrial arts
- Brace (tool), a hand tool, also known as the Bit Brace
- Brace (theatre), a stabilizer for a piece of scenery
- A reinforcement used in architecture, such as in timber framing
- Wheel brace, lug wrench, on vehicle wheels
Other meanings
- Brace may mean a pair
- Brace (sports), a term in a number of sports for "two" from the Old French word brace, "two arms".
- Brace (hunting), e.g., a brace of hound, a brace of pheasant
- Braces (clothing), known in American English as suspenders, elastic fabric straps used to support trousers
- Brace (singer) (born 1986), a Dutch singer
- Braces (sailing), the lines used to rotate the yards around the mast
- Bracer, a strap or sheath used in archery
- Brace position, a body stance used to prepare for a crash
- Braces (punctuation), the "{" and "}" symbols
- Curly bracket programming language, a programming language that uses braces.
- Military brace, a body posture primarily used in military schools
- Brace (music), connecting two staves
- BRACE MMA organization
See also
- All pages beginning with "Brace"
- All pages with titles containing Brace
- Bracing (disambiguation)
- Bracket (disambiguation)
- BRAC (disambiguation)
- Support (disambiguation)
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