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A relief is a sculpture where a modelled form projects from a flat background.
Relief may also refer to:
Other common meanings
editPlaces
editAntarctica
edit- Relief Inlet, Victoria Land
- Relief Pass, a mountain pass in Oates Land
United States
edit- Relief, California, an unincorporated community
- Relief, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
- Relief, North Carolina, an unincorporated community
- Relief, Ohio, an unincorporated community
- Relief, Washington, a community
Arts, entertainment, and media
editMusic
edit- Relief (music), the curvature of the neck of a guitar or similar instrument allowing the strings to vibrate freely
- Relief (album), 2013 debut studio album by American rapper Mike Stud
- Relief, 1998 album by Pope Jane
- Relief, 2010 album by Finnish band Magenta Skycode
- "Relief", a song by American band Cold War Kids from their 2008 album Loyalty to Loyalty
Other arts, entertainment, and media
edit- RelieF, a Canadian news television series
- Relief pitcher, a baseball or softball position
- Bas relief, a projecting image with a shallow overall depth
Ships
edit- Relief (sternwheeler), a steamboat that operated on the Willamette River, in Oregon, U.S., in the mid-1800s
- United States lightship Relief (WAL-605), a former Coast Guard lightship launched in 1950 and out of service in 1976
- USS Relief, several U.S. Navy ships
Terrain
edit- Relief generation, a set of landforms
- Topographic relief, the variation in elevation of a landscape
- Shaded relief in terrain cartography
Other uses
edit- Relief (feature selection), a feature selection algorithm
- Relief valve, a safety valve designed to open in overpressurized system conditions
- Debt relief, the partial or total "lifting-back" or forgiveness of debt
- Feudal relief, a payment to an overlord by the heir of a feudal tenant to license him to take possession of his inheritance
- Judicial relief, or legal remedy
- Optical relief, a concept in optical mineralogy
- Poor relief, historical name, prior to the era of the welfare state, for official methods of poverty alleviation
- Quasar Relief, a Czech competition hang glider design