Brace(s) or bracing may refer to:

Medical

Orthopaedic brace Orthotics ( el, Ορθός, translit=ortho, lit=to straighten, to align) is a medical specialty that focuses on the design and application of orthoses, or braces. An is "an externally applied device used to influence the structural and functio ...

, 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 br ...

, a device limiting motion of the spine *** Milwaukee brace, a kind of back brace used in the treatment of spinal curvatures ***

Boston brace The Boston brace, a type of thoraco-lumbo-sacral-orthosis (TLSO), is a back brace used primarily for the treatment of idiopathic scoliosis in children. It was developed in 1972 by M.E "Bill" Miller and John Hall at the Boston Children's Hospital i ...

, 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 ...

, 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. ...

, a shortened form of vambrace *

Braces (clothing) Suspenders (American English, Canadian English), or braces (British English, Australian English) are fabric or leather straps worn over the shoulders to hold up skirts or trousers. The straps may be elasticated, either entirely or only at attac ...

, 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), 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 A lug wrench also colloquially known as a tire iron, is the name for a type of socket wrench used to loosen and tighten lug nuts on automobile wheels. In the United Kingdom and Australia it is commonly known as a wheel brace. Lug wrenches may b ...

, 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, a cross-beam connecting between arches that is meant to add rigidity to the construction of mining tunnels *

Cross bracing 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 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 (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 si ...

(born 2000), Dutch singer *

Brace Arquiza Brace Henry Arquiza (born December 12, 2000) is a Filipino actor, model, dancer and singer from Cavite, Philippines. Currently, he is a talent of ABS-CBN and is known for his role as Toffer in the primetime series ''Bagito''. He was also a membe ...

(born 2000), Filipino actor, model, dancer and singer *

Brace Beemer Brace Beemer (December 9, 1902 – March 1, 1965) was an American radio actor and announcer at radio station WXYZ (AM), Detroit, Michigan. He is best known as the radio voice of the Lone Ranger. ''The Lone Ranger'' Brace Beemer became the third ...

(born 1902), American radio actor and announcer *

Brace Belden Brace Robert Belden is an American podcaster and union activist who volunteered to serve with the People's Protection Units (YPG), a Kurdish militia, in the Syrian Civil War. Belden is also widely known by his former Twitter handle, PissPigGrand ...

(born 1989), American leftist

Places

Brace Brook Brace Brook is a tributary of the Lackawanna River in Wayne County and Susquehanna County, in Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is approximately long and flows through Mount Pleasant Township and Clinton Township in Wayne County and Fore ...

, tributary of the Lackawanna River in Pennsylvania *

Brace Farm Brace Farm, also known as Pleasant Hill Stock Farm, is a historic home and farm located at Meetinghouse Green in Herkimer County, New York. The Brace farmhouse was built in 1861, and consists of a two-story, three bay, main block and 1 1/2-story ...

, 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 Walton is a town in Delaware County, New York, United States. The population was 5,576 at the 2010 census. The town is in the west-ce ...

, mountain located in the Catskill Mountains *

Brace Mountain Brace Mountain is the peak of a ridge in the southern Taconic Mountains, near the tripoint of the U.S. states of New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Its main summit is located in New York; it is the highest point in that state's Dutchess ...

, the peak of a ridge in the southern Taconic Mountains *

Braces Point Braces Point () is the northeast point of Vindication Island, South Sandwich Islands. The feature was named Low Point during the survey from RRS ''Discovery II'' in 1930, but the name was changed to avoid duplication. The new name applied by the U ...

, northeast point of Vindication Island, South Sandwich Islands *

Meole Brace Meole Brace, sometimes known locally as simply Meole (pronounced like ''meal''), is a south-western suburb of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. The Rea Brook, a tributary of the River Severn, flows through the area. The brook was in the past k ...

, suburb of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England

Posture

Brace position To assume a brace position or crash position is an instruction that can be given to prepare for a crash, such as on an aircraft; the instruction to "Brace for impact!" or "Brace! Brace!" is often given if the aircraft must make an emergency land ...

, a body stance used to prepare for a crash *

Military brace The military brace is a body posture, sometimes known as scapular posterior depression or the costoclavicular maneuver. It is a modification of standing at attention that is primarily used in military schools. It is also used in the diagnosis of ...

, a body posture primarily used in military schools

Music

Brace (music) In Western musical notation, the staff (US and UK)"staff" in the Collin ...

, connecting two staves *

Guitar bracing Guitar bracing refers to the system of wooden struts which internally support and reinforce the soundboard and back of acoustic guitars. Soundboard or top bracing transmits the forces exerted by the strings from the bridge to the rim. The luthier ...

, 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 Michael Topf (born 1980), records under the name DJ Brace, is a Canadian DJ and producer.

(born 1980), DJ and producer

Sports

Brace (sports) A hat-trick or hat trick is the achievement of a generally positive feat three times in a match, or another achievement based on the number three. Origin The term first appeared in 1858 in cricket, to describe H. H. Stephenson taking three wi ...

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

Brace (MMA) Brace (formerly known as ''Brace For War'') was an Australian mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion. Brace was founded in 2005 by Kya Pate. In an interview with MMA Kanvas Kya Pate detailed what it is like to be the promoter of Australian MMA. Si ...

, MMA organization

Other meanings

Brace (sailing) A brace on a square-rigged ship is a rope (''line'') used to rotate a yard around the mast, to allow the ship to sail at different angles to the wind. Braces are always used in pairs, one at each end of a yard (''yardarm''), termed port brace a ...

, the lines used to rotate the yards around the mast *

Braces (punctuation) A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'r ...

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