Release may refer to:
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Art release, the public distribution of an artistic production, such as a film, album, or song
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Legal release, a legal instrument
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News release, a communication directed at the news media
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Release (ISUP), a code to identify and debug events in ISUP signaling
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Release (phonetics), the opening of the closure of a stop consonant
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Release from imprisonment
* Release, in medical classification, a root operation in the
ICD-10 Procedure Coding System
* Software release, a distribution of a computer software in the
software release life cycle
The software release life cycle is the process of developing, testing, and distributing a software product (e.g., an operating system). It typically consists of several stages, such as pre-alpha, alpha, beta, and release candidate, before the fi ...
Film and television
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''Release'' (film), a 2010 British film starring Daniel Brocklebank
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"Release" (''Angel''), a television episode
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"Release" (''Law & Order''), a television episode
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"Release" (''The X-Files''), a television episode
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"The Release" (''Animorphs''), a television episode
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"The Release" (''Entourage''), a television episode
Music
* Release, part of the
envelope of a musical note
* Release, a bridge in
thirty-two-bar form
* Release Entertainment, a subsidiary label of
Relapse Records
Albums
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''Release'' (Cop Shoot Cop album), 1994
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''Release'' (Damon Johnson album) or the title song, 2010
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''Release'' (David Knopfler album), 1983
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''Release'' (Pet Shop Boys album), 2002
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''Release'' (Sister Hazel album) or the title song, 2009
Songs
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"Release" (The Tea Party song), 1998
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"Release" (Timbaland song), 2008
* "
Release (The Tension)", by Patti LaBelle, 1980
* "Release", by Afro Celt Sound System from ''
Volume 2: Release'', 1999
* "Release", by George from ''
Polyserena'', 2002
* "Release", by Imagine Dragons from ''
Smoke + Mirrors'', 2015
* "Release", by Paul McCartney from ''
Standing Stone
A menhir (; from Brittonic languages: ''maen'' or ''men'', "stone" and ''hir'' or ''hîr'', "long"), standing stone, orthostat, or lith is a large upright rock (geology), stone, emplaced in the ground by humans, typically dating from the Eur ...
'', 1997
* "Release", by Pearl Jam from ''
Ten'', 1991
* "Release, Release", by Yes from ''
Tormato'', 1978
* "Release" by Black Eyed Peas from ''
Bridging the Gap'', 2000
Organizations
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Release (agency), a UK agency that provides legal services for young people charged with drug possession
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Release International, an organization for monitoring persecution of Christians
* ''
Release Magazine'', a Swedish alternative music online magazine
See also
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Delayed release (disambiguation)
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Flash release, a grape-pressing technique
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Dismissal (employment)
Dismissal (colloquially called firing or sacking) is the termination of employment by an employer against the will of the employee. Though such a decision can be made by an employer for a variety of reasons, ranging from an economic downturn to ...
, termination of employment
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Release time, in US public schools, time set aside for students' private religious education
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Released (disambiguation)
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