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 ...

Relief (humanitarian) Humanitarian aid is material and logistic assistance to people who need help. It is usually short-term help until the long-term help by the government and other institutions replaces it. Among the people in need are the homeless, refugees, and v ...

Places

Antarctica

Relief Inlet Relief Inlet () is a narrow inlet at the southwest corner of Terra Nova Bay. The feature is formed along a shear plane caused by differential ice movement near the coast of Victoria Land involving the north edge of Drygalski Ice Tongue and so ...

, 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 The Antarctic Research Centre (ARC) is part of t ...

, a mountain pass in Oates Land

United States

Relief, California Relief Hill (also, Relief) is an unincorporated community in Nevada County, California Nevada County () is a county located in the U.S. state of California, in the Sierra Nevada. As of the 2020 census, the population was 102,241. The county ...

, an unincorporated community *

Relief, Kentucky Relief is an unincorporated community in Morgan County, Kentucky, United States. It lies along Route 172 east of the city of West Liberty, the county seat A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a c ...

, an unincorporated community *

Relief, North Carolina Relief is an unincorporated community in Mitchell County, North Carolina, United States. The community is located along the banks of the North Toe River, connected to North Carolina Highway 197 (NC 197) via Relief Road (SR 1314). Hist ...

, an unincorporated community *

Relief, Ohio Relief is an unincorporated community in Washington County, in the U.S. state of Ohio Ohio () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Of the List of states and territories of the United S ...

, an unincorporated community *

Relief, Washington Kennewick () is a city in Benton County in the U.S. state of Washington. It is located along the southwest bank of the Columbia River, just southeast of the confluence of the Columbia and Yakima rivers and across from the confluence of the ...

, 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 is an indie rock band from Turku, Finland, formed in 2005 by Jori Sjöroos. The band's members are Tomi Mäkilä on keyboard and synthesizer, percussionist Niko Kivikangas, guitarist Henry Ojala, bassist Kalle Taivainen and si ...

* "Relief", a song by American band Cold War Kids from their 2008 album ''

Loyalty to Loyalty ''Loyalty to Loyalty'' is the second studio album by American indie rock band Cold War Kids. It was released on September 23, 2008, by Downtown Records. Following the success of their debut album '' Robbers & Cowards'' and spending the rest of ...

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 weather d ...

, a baseball or softball position *

Bas 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 the ...

, 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, scale and process that created them. A relief generation is typically nested within a larger and older generation and host ...

, 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 ...

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 ...

, 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 r ...

, 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 (common law), civil law jurisdiction, enforces a right, imposes a Sentence (law), penalty, or ma ...

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 mount ...

, 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 h ...

, historical name, prior to the era of the welfare state, for official methods of poverty alleviation *

Quasar Relief The Quasar Relief is a series of Czech high-wing, single-place, topless, competitions hang gliders that was designed and produced by Quasar of Dolní Bečva. The aircraft is supplied complete and ready-to-fly.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ...

, a Czech competition hang glider design {{Disambiguation, geo