Relaxation

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Relaxation may refer to

• a process or state with the aim of recreation through leisure activities or idling and the opposite of stress or tension
  • see also Relaxation technique
• In mechanical systems, the release of tension on a given instrument.
• In physics, the transition of an atom or molecule from a higher energy level to a lower one:
  • Dielectric relaxation.
  • Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR).
  • see also Relaxation time
• In mathematics,
  • the relaxation technique in mathematical optimization, a technique for transforming hard constraints into easier ones;
  • the relaxation method for numerically solving elliptic partial differential equations.
• In computer science, the act of smoothing out a 3D mesh, or of substituting alternative program code during linking.
• In music, the release of musical tension.

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