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
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
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
- Relief (sternwheeler), a steamboat that operated on the Willamette River, in Oregon, U.S., in the mid-1800s
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
- Poor relief, historical name, prior to the era of the welfare state, for official methods of poverty alleviation
- RelieF, a Canadian news television series
- Relief (feature selection), a feature selection algorithm
- Quasar Relief, a Czech competition hang glider design
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