Relief (disambiguation)

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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)
• Topographic relief, the variation in elevation of a landscape
• Relief map

Places

• Relief, California, an unincorporated community
• Relief, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
• Relief, Ohio, an unincorporated community
• Relief, Washington, a community
• Relief Pass, a mountain pass in Oates Land, Antarctica
• Relief Inlet, Victoria Land, Antarctica

Ships

• USS Relief, several U.S. Navy ships
• United States lightship Relief (WAL-605), a former Coast Guard lightship launched in 1950 and out of service in 1976

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", a song by American band Cold War Kids from their 2008 album Loyalty to Loyalty
• Relief, 1998 album by Pope Jane
• Relief, 2010 album by Finnish band Magenta Skycode

Other uses

• Feudal relief, a payment to an overlord by the heir of a feudal tenant to licence him to take possession of his inheritance
• Debt relief, the partial or total "lifting-back" or forgiveness of debt
• RelieF, a Canadian news television series
• Relief (feature selection), a feature selection algorithm