Brace(s) or bracing may refer to:

Medical

* Orthopaedic brace, a device used to restrict or assist body movement **

Back brace A back brace is a device designed to limit the motion of the spine in cases of bone fracture or in post-operative spinal fusiona, as well as a preventative measure against some progressive conditions or to correct patient posture. Common back ...

, 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 A cervical collar, also known as a neck brace, is a medical device used to support and immobilize a person's neck. It is also applied by emergency personnel to those who have had traumatic head or neck injuries, and can be used to treat chronic m ...

, also called a neck brace, used to restrict neck movement *

Dental braces Dental braces (also known as braces, orthodontic cases, or cases) are devices used in orthodontics that align and straighten teeth and help position them with regard to a person's bite, while also aiming to improve dental health. They are often ...

, a device used to reposition teeth

Clothing

Brace (armor) Vambraces (French: ''avant-bras'', sometimes known as ''lower cannons'' in the Middle Ages) or forearm guards are ''tubular'' or ''gutter'' defences for the forearm worn as part of a suit of plate armour that were often connected to gauntlets. V ...

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

Construction and industrial arts

Brace (tool) A brace is a hand tool used with a bit ( drill bit or auger) to drill holes, usually in wood. Pressure is applied to the top and the tool is rotated with a U-shaped grip. Bits used come in a variety of types but the more commonly used Ridgeway ...

, a hand tool for drilling holes, also known as a bit brace *

Brace (theatre) In theater, a brace is a sliding piece of wood or metal with a 'butterfly' winged nut to make it longer or shorter to fit the flat used to stabilize a flat set piece such as a flat. The nut is used, so that it can be changed more quickly than a ...

, a stabilizer for a piece of scenery * A reinforcement used in architecture, such as in

timber framing Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden ...

* Wheel brace, aka lug wrench, used to remove nuts or bolts holding wheels to a vehicle * Aircraft bracing, struts and wires which stiffen and strengthen the airframe *

Cross brace In construction, cross bracing is a system utilized to reinforce building structures in which diagonal supports intersect. Cross bracing is usually seen with two diagonal supports placed in an X-shaped manner. Under lateral force (such as wind or ...

, a cross-beam connecting between arches that is meant to add rigidity to the construction of mining tunnels * Cross bracing, a system utilized to reinforce building structures in which diagonal supports intersect *

Guy-wire A guy-wire, guy-line, guy-rope, or stay, also called simply a guy, is a tensioned cable designed to add stability to a free-standing structure. They are used commonly for ship masts, radio masts, wind turbines, utility poles, and tents. A ...

, a tensioned cable designed to add stability to a free-standing structure

People

Brace (surname) Brace is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * John Brace (MP) (born ), English Member of Parliament * Adam Brace (born 1980), English playwright * Andrew Brace (born 1988), former Belgian rugby union referee * C. Loring Brace (bor ...

Brace (singer) Eddy Brace Rashid MacDonald (born 23 August 1986), shortened to Brace, is a Dutch singer. He is best known for his collaborations with Dutch rapper Ali B, who helped to bring Brace to stardom after their first musical collaboration on the hit s ...

(born 2000), Dutch singer * Brace Arquiza (born 2000), Filipino actor, model, dancer and singer * Brace Beemer (born 1902), 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 Brace Hill is a mountain located in the Catskill Mountains of New York east-southeast of Walton, New York. Money Point is located southeast of Brace Hill and Colchester Mountain Colchester Mountain is a mountain located in the Catskill Mou ...

, 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 *

(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 "" symbols, i.e., "curly brackets" **

Curly bracket programming language This is a list of notable programming languages, grouped by type. There is no overarching classification scheme for programming languages. Thus, in many cases, a language is listed under multiple headings (in this regard, see " Multiparadigm lan ...

, a programming language that uses braces **

Bracing style In computer programming, an indentation style is a convention governing the indentation of blocks of code to convey program structure. This article largely addresses the free-form languages, such as C and its descendants, but can be (and oft ...

, a type of indent style used in computer programming * "Braces" (Care Bears episode), an episode of ''Care Bears''