Relaxation
Relaxation , sometimes also used in the word formation variant relaxation , from the Latin relaxare ( slacken , loosen up, loosen up) or relaxatio (relaxation, relief, release , recovery)
- Relaxation (natural science) , in natural sciences (especially in physics, chemistry, materials science) the transition of a system to its basic state or to a state of equilibrium (often after a stimulus)
- Surface relaxation , in solid-state physics and surface chemistry, a change in the distance between atoms on the solid-state surface
- Relaxation (NMR) , in nuclear physics and medical imaging, relaxation processes with nuclear magnetic resonance
- Muscle relaxation , in medicine a) the reversible drug paralysis of the skeletal muscles and b) the physiological release of muscle tension
- as well as in cardiology the relaxation phase of the heart chambers within the expulsion phase of the heart, see diastole
- in road construction, the setting of the mixture of asphalt and bitumen in the fresh road surface, see ceiling (road construction)
- in numerical mathematics a method for the approximately iterative solution of systems of equations, see splitting method
- in mathematical optimization (operations research), the omission or relaxation of conditions in optimization models in order to obtain a model that is easier to solve; see integer linear optimization and LP relaxation
- the limit value of a functional sequence in the calculus of variations / functional analysis, see Γ-convergence
- in computer science a step of the Dijkstra algorithm
- in historical ecclesiastical legal language a euphemistic expression for the execution of the heretic convicted on the basis of a confession at the instigation of the Inquisition authority, see Inquisition
