Relief (disambiguation)

A relief 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)

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

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

Other arts, entertainment, and media

 * RelieF, a Canadian news television series
 * Relief pitcher, 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, the variation in elevation of a landscape
 * Shaded relief in terrain cartography

Other uses

 * Relief (feature selection), 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, 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, a Czech competition hang glider design