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'Brace' may mean:

★ Back brace, a brace used to allow injuries to heal by limiting motion or to correct spine deformities

★ Brace (architecture), a reinforcement or stabilizer in building

★ Brace (cricket), in cricket, the act of taking two wickets with two successive deliveries of the ball

★ Brace (grouping), used in mathematics to denote that there is a pair of something

★ Brace (measure), also called a bracchio or brasse, a long measure, comparable to a fathom

★ Brace (musical notation), a notation used to join two or more staffs

★ Brace (orthopaedic), a mechanical device used to address disorders of the locomotor system, its muscular and bone parts

★ Brace (theatre), a support for a scenery flat in a theatre

★ Brace (tool), a hand tool used to drill holes, usually in wood

★ Brace position, a stance to be adopted before an aircraft crash

★ Bracer, a leather or plastic strap or sheath that protects the inside of an archer's arm while shooting

★ Braces (sailing), lines used to move the yards of a sailing ship

★ Cervical collar, also called a neck brace, used to secure the cervical vertebrae in the normal position

★ Curly brace, the { and } symbols, often used to define sets

★ Curly bracket programming language, also called a curly brace programming language, a programming language that uses curly brackets

★ Dental braces, a metal device used to progressively straighten teeth

★ Meole Brace, a suburb of Shrewsbury, England

★ Military brace, a body posture that is a modification of standing at attention that is primarily used in military schools

★ Milwaukee brace, a correctional back/body brace to correct for scoliosis, kyphosis and other congenital spine deformities

★ Suspenders, called braces in British English, a support for trousers, usually elasticated

★ Vambrace, a wrist or forearm protector

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★ Charles Loring Brace (1826-1890), a contributing philanthropist in the field of social reform

★ Jonathan Brace (1754-1837), a United States Representative from Connecticut

★ Julia Brace (1807-1884), a deaf and blind woman who learned tactile American Sign Language

★ Rick Brace, the current president of the CTV television network, a unit of CTVglobemedia

★ William Brace (1865 - 1947), a member of British Parliament and Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department