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Brace(s) or bracing may refer to:
Medical
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
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
Bracing (aeronautics) , 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
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
Music
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
See also
Topics referred to by the same term