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Encyclopedia > Brace
Look up brace in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

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  • Curly brackets, the { and } symbols, often used to define sets.
  • Brace (grouping), a pair, two.
  • Brace (architecture), a reinforcement or stabilizer in building.
  • Brace (armor) or bracer, a wrist or forearm protector.
  • Brace (drum), a slide for adjusting tension of a drum.
  • Brace (musical notation) or accolade (musical notation), is used to join two or more staves.
  • Brace (theatre), a support for a scenery flat in a theatre.
  • Braces (clothing) (in American English - suspenders), a support for trousers, usually elasticated.
  • Brace (position), an instruction to ready yourself for something, as in brace for impact before a crash.
  • Brace (cricket), in cricket, the act of taking two wickets with two successive deliveries of the ball.
  • Brace (tool), a hand tool used to drill holes. Pressure is applied to the top and the tool is rotated with a U-shaped grip.
  • Brace (orthodontics) or dental braces, a metal device used to progressively straighten teeth.
  • Brace (orthopaedic) (also Orthosis or Orthotic), a mechanical device used to address disorders of the locomotor system, its muscular and bone parts.
  • Braces (sailing) lines used to move the yards of a sailing ship.
  • Brace (hip hop), a Dutch hip hop artist.
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