- Relaxation
Relaxation may refer to:
*Human relaxation is the art and science of doing nothing - regardless of the outer activity including physical and/or mental tension. A human condition of flowing vital energy binging about a state of improved health and well being. Effective relaxation may be referred to as rejuvenation
*a process or state with the aim ofrecreation through leisure activities or idling and the opposite of stress or tension
**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
**Relaxation (NMR)
**Relaxation time
*In mathematics,
**Relaxation technique (mathematics) , in mathematical optimization, a technique for transforming hard constraints into easier ones
**Relaxation method , for numerically solving elliptic partial differential equations
*Incomputer 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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