Relief (disambiguation)
# 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)

## 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), 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
