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 <nowiki>"{" and "}"</nowiki> 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''

==See also== * Bracer, a strap or sheath used in archery * Bracket (disambiguation) * BRAC (disambiguation) * Support (disambiguation) * {{look from}} * {{in title}}