Relief

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A relief is a sculptured artwork where a modeled form projects from a flat background.

Relief may also refer to:

Lifting-up from a flat surface

• Relief carving, the technique used in creating a wood relief
• Relief print, a group of techniques in printmaking
• Terrain, the third or vertical dimension of land surface
• Raised-relief map, a three-dimensional map representing elevation
• Shaded relief, a cartographic technique that portrays terrain by using simulated shadows
• Relief mapping (computer graphics), a texture mapping technique
• Optical relief, the apparent difference in the height of materials in optical mineralogy with differing refractive indexes
• Relief (music), the curvature of the neck of a guitar or similar instrument allowing the strings to vibrate freely

Lifting back of a burden or weight

• Humanitarian aid, material assistance provided for humanitarian purposes, usually during crises
• Aid agency, an organisation dedicated to distributing aid, to relieve the burden of hunger
• Relief pitcher, a baseball pitcher who is brought into a game in progress to relieve the work of a team-mate
• Relief Society, a philanthropic women's organization, an auxiliary of the LDS Church
• Relief valve, a type of valve used to control, limit or "lift back" pressure
• Debt relief, the partial or total "lifting-back" or forgiveness of debt

Places

• Relief, California
• Relief, Kentucky

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
• USS Relief, any of several U.S. Navy ships

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