Brace facts for kids

Brace(s) or bracing 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

Construction and industrial arts

• Brace (tool), 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
• 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, 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 tensioned cable designed to add stability to a free-standing structure

People

• Brace (surname)
• Brace Arquiza (born 2000), Filipino actor, model, dancer and singer
• 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 (armor), a shortened form of vambrace
• Braces (clothing), elastic fabric straps used to support trousers (known in American English as suspenders)
• 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

See also

• Bracer, a strap or sheath used in archery
• Bracket (disambiguation)
• BRAC (disambiguation)
• Support (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "Brace"
• All pages with titles containing "Brace"