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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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