relief Relief is a sculpture, sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces remain attached to a solid background of the same material. The term ''wikt:relief, relief'' is from the Latin verb , to raise (). To create a sculpture in relief is to give ...

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

Other common meanings

* Relief (emotion) *

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 ...

Relief (humanitarian) Humanitarian aid is material and Humanitarian Logistics, logistic assistance, usually in the short-term, to people in need. Among the people in need are the homelessness, homeless, refugees, and victims of natural disasters, wars, and famines. Th ...

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) 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 requires ...

, 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 Magenta Skycode was an indie rock band from Turku, Finland, formed in 2005 by . The band's members were Tomi Mäkilä on keyboard and synthesizer, percussionist Niko Kivikangas, guitarist Henry Ojala, bassist Kalle Taivainen and singer and song ...

* "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 sculpture, sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces remain attached to a solid background of the same material. The term ''wikt:relief, relief'' is from the Latin verb , to raise (). To create a sculpture in relief is to give ...

'', a Canadian news television series *

Relief pitcher In baseball and softball, a relief pitcher or reliever is a pitcher who pitches in the game after the starting pitcher or another relief pitcher has been removed from the game due to fatigue (medical), fatigue, injury, ineffectiveness, ejection ...

, a baseball or softball position *

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

, 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 relief generation is a set of landforms within a larger landform assembly that can be distinguished by their shape, age Age or AGE may refer to: Time and its effects * Age, the amount of time someone has been alive or something has existed ** ...

, a set of landforms *

Topographic relief Terrain (), alternatively relief or topographical relief, is the dimension and shape of a given surface of land. In physical geography, terrain is the lay of the land. This is usually expressed in terms of the elevation, slope, and orientati ...

, 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; excessive pressure might otherwise build up and create a process upset, instrument or equipment failure, explosion, or fir ...

, a safety valve designed to open in overpressurized system conditions * Debt relief, the partial or total "lifting-back" or forgiveness of debt *

Feudal relief {{Short description, Form of taxation under feudalism 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 ...

, 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 Optical relief (usually noted as simply relief) is a visually observable property in optical mineralogy used to identify minerals based on their refractive index. Relief is determined by observing the degree to which grains stand out from a mounting ...

, 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