relief Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces are bonded to a solid background of the same material. The term '' relief'' is from the Latin verb ''relevo'', to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that th ...

is a sculpture where a modelled form projects from a flat background. Relief may also refer to:

Other common meanings

Relief (emotion) Relief is a positive emotion experienced when something unpleasant, painful or distressing has not happened or has come to an end. Relief is often accompanied with a sigh, which signals emotional transition. People from all over the world can rec ...

Relief (military) Relief, as a military term, refers to the breaking of a siege or an encirclement by an outside force. It may occur in conjunction with a breakout and is one of four possible conclusions of investment, the others being a breakout, surrender or r ...

* Relief (humanitarian)

Places

Antarctica

* Relief Inlet, Victoria Land *

Relief Pass Relief Pass () is a pass, about 1,000 m high, situated 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) north of Bastion Hill in the Brown Hills. Explored by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (VUWAE), 1962–63, and so named by its members ...

, 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) Relief, or profile, refers to the amount of curvature in the fingerboard of a guitar or other similar stringed instrument. When the strings of a guitar vibrate, they vibrate in an elliptical shape. Thus, providing the best possible action Action ma ...

, 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 Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces are bonded to a solid background of the same material. The term '' relief'' is from the Latin verb ''relevo'', to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that th ...

'', a Canadian news television series *

Relief pitcher In baseball and softball, a relief pitcher or reliever is a pitcher who enters the game after the starting pitcher is removed because of fatigue, ineffectiveness, injury, or ejection, or for other strategic reasons, such as inclement weat ...

, 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 Terrain or relief (also topographical relief) involves the vertical and horizontal dimensions of land surface. The term bathymetry is used to describe underwater relief, while hypsometry studies terrain relative to sea level. The Latin w ...

, the variation in elevation of a landscape *

Shaded relief Terrain cartography or relief mapping is the depiction of the shape of the surface of the Earth on a map, using one or more of several techniques that have been developed. Terrain or relief is an essential aspect of physical geography, and as su ...

in terrain cartography

Other uses

Relief (feature selection) Relief is an algorithm developed by Kira and Rendell in 1992 that takes a filter-method approach to feature selection that is notably sensitive to feature interactions. It was originally designed for application to binary classification problems w ...

, a feature selection algorithm *

Relief valve A relief valve or pressure relief valve (PRV) is a type of safety valve used to control or limit the pressure in a system; pressure might otherwise build up and create a process upset, instrument or equipment failure, or fire. The pressure is re ...

, a safety valve designed to open in overpressurized system conditions *

Debt relief Debt relief or debt cancellation is the partial or total forgiveness of debt, or the slowing or stopping of debt growth, owed by individuals, corporations, or nations. From antiquity through the 19th century, it refers to domestic debts, in particu ...

, the partial or total "lifting-back" or forgiveness of debt *

Feudal relief Feudal relief was a one-off "fine" or form of taxation payable to an overlord by the heir of a feudal tenant to license him to take possession of his fief, i.e. an estate-in-land, by inheritance. It is comparable to a death duty or inheritance ta ...

, 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 A legal remedy, also referred to as judicial relief or a judicial remedy, is the means with which a court of law, usually in the exercise of civil law jurisdiction, enforces a right, imposes a penalty, or makes another court order to impose its ...

* Optical relief, a concept in optical mineralogy *

Poor relief In English and British history, poor relief refers to government and ecclesiastical action to relieve poverty. Over the centuries, various authorities have needed to decide whose poverty deserves relief and also who should bear the cost of hel ...

, historical name, prior to the era of the welfare state, for official methods of poverty alleviation * Quasar Relief, a Czech competition hang glider design {{Disambiguation, geo