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