Relief (disambiguation)
Relief [ reˈli̯ɛf ] ( French le relief 'height design' , from Latin relevare 'to lift up' ) stands for:
- Relief , in art a plastic representation from a background or worked into the material
- Terrain , in the geosciences in general
- Relief (geology) , in geology the elevation of the earth's surface
- Relief (cartography) , a three-dimensional model of part of the earth's surface
- Relief (microscopy) , in petrological-mineralogical thin section microscopy , the effect that minerals appear at different heights due to the refraction of light, although they lie in one plane
Places:
- Relief (California) , location in Nevada County, California, USA
- Relief (Kentucky) , unparished area in Morgan County, Kentucky, USA
- Relief (North Carolina) , location in Mitchell County, North Carolina, USA
- Relief (Ohio) , location in Washington County, Ohio, USA
- Relief (Washington) , location in Columbia County, Washington, DC USA
Others:
- Relief Inlet , Bay on the Scott Coast, Victoria Land, Antarctica
- Relief Pass , mountain pass in the Ross Dependency, Antarctica
See also:
Wiktionary: Relief - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Wiktionary: relief - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
