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 ...

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 (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 ...

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 south ...

, Victoria Land * Relief Pass, a mountain pass in Oates Land

United States

* Relief, California, an unincorporated community *

Relief, Kentucky Relief is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Morgan County, Kentucky, Morgan County, Kentucky, United States. It lies along Kentucky Route 172, Route 172 east of the city of West Liberty, Kentucky, West Liberty, the county seat of ...

, 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). Histor ...

, an unincorporated community *

Relief, Ohio Relief is an unincorporated community in Washington County, in the U.S. state of Ohio Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly ...

, 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 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 200 ...

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 the ...

'', 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 (medical), fatigue, ineffectiveness, injury, or ejection (sports), ejection, or for other strategic ...

, 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 it ...

, a set of landforms * Topographic relief, the variation in elevation of a landscape * Shaded relief 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 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 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 mounti ...

, 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 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