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A brake is a device which inhibits motion.

Brake may also refer to one of the following:

Transportation

• Brake (carriage), a horse-drawn carriage used to train horses for draft work
• Railway brake
• Air brake (disambiguation)
  • Air brake (aeronautics), in aeronautics, a type of flight control system used on aircraft to reduce speed
  • Air brake (road vehicle), a type of brake used on large vehicles in place of hydraulic brakes, using compressed air
  • Railway air brake, a type of brake operated by compressed air and used on locomotives and railroad cars
• Hydraulic brake
• Dynamic braking
• Regenerative brake
• Electromagnetic brake
• Emergency brake (train)
• Parking brake
• Counter-pressure brake
• Drum brake
• Disc brake
• Archaic past tense of the verb 'to break' (see brake)

Places

• Brake, Lower Saxony, a city in Germany
• Brake, West Virginia
• Brake, a former independent city now incorporated into Lemgo, Germany

Business

• Brake Bros Ltd, a food distributor in the UK and France

Arts

Literature and film

• Brake (film), a 2012 action film starring Stephen Dorff
• "Brake" (Anderson), Science Fiction story by Poul Anderson

Music

• Brakes (band), the UK band (known in America as BrakesBrakesBrakes)
• The Brakes, a modern rock band from Philadelphia
• "Brakes", a 2008 single from the UK band Royworld

Other

• Brake, ferns of the genus Pteris
• Brake (sheet metal bending), a tool for bending sheet metal
• Brake (surname)
• Brake (charity) a road safety charity

See also

• Braken (disambiguation)
• Break (disambiguation)

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