Relief (disambiguation)

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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

• Relief (emotion)
• Relief (military)

Places

Antarctica

• Relief Inlet, Victoria Land
• Relief Pass, a mountain pass in Oates Land

United States

• 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

Music

• 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

• RelieF , a Canadian news television series
• Relief pitcher, a baseball or softball position
• Bas relief, a projecting image with a shallow overall depth

Ships

• 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

• Relief generation, a set of landforms
• Topographic relief, the variation in elevation of a landscape
• Shaded relief in terrain cartography

Other uses

• 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