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high relief [′hī ri¦lēf]

(graphic arts)

Sculpture projecting from the background block to the extent of at least half of the natural depth of the modeled forms.

high relief, alto-relievo, alto-rilievo

high relief

Sculpture relief work in which the figures project more than half their thickness.

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No references found			On the top of the churchyard wall is a tombstone, on which are cut in high relief, two ravens, or such-like birds. Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context "The cap'n's been ridin' the devil's own pace," said Dalton the coachman, whose person stood out in high relief as he smoked his pipe against the stable wall, when John brought up Rattler. Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context The lid of the soup-tureen drew a momentary glance from Genestas; he noticed that it was surmounted by a group of vegetables in high relief, skilfully colored after the manner of Bernard Palissy, the celebrated sixteenth century craftsman. The Country Doctor by de Balzac, Honore View in context			high jump high key high level High magnetic fields High Mass high memory high memory area high moby High Mountain Relief High Noon High Performance Computing and Communications High Performance File System High Performance Fortran High Performance Parallel Interface High Performance Routing High Performance Serial Bus high place high plain High Point High Point State Park high polymer High Pressure high priest high Q high quartz high relief High Renaissance high resolution high school High Seas high side High Sierra High Speed Circuit Switched Data High Speed Connect high speed serial interface high steel High Street high tech high technology High Temperature high tension high tide high tomb High Tor State Park high touch high treason high vacuum High Victorian architecture High Victorian Gothic High Victorian Italianate high voltage			High Rate Pregnancy High Rate Protection High Rate Run-Length Limited High Rate Switch High Rate Telemetry Test Set High Rate-High Delay High Rating High Ratio Compact Chamber High Ratio Loan High Ratio Loans High Ratio Mortgage High Ratio Mortgages High Rd High Reach Descale Machine High Reach Extendible Turret High Reactivity Carbon Mixture High Readiness Force High Reduction Mill High Refraction Diamond Turning High Refractive Index high regard High Reliability Certified Flow High Reliability Fighter High Reliability Head Up Display high relief High Renaissance High Renaissance High Renin Essential Hypertension High Repetition Rate Laser High Repetition-rate Pulsed Doppler High Repetitive high repute High Resistance Cage Motor High Resistance Skin Points High Resistivity Silicon High resolution High resolution High resolution High Resolution 3D Computed Tomography High Resolution Acoustic Televiewer High Resolution Adsorption High Resolution Airglow and Aurora Spectrograph High Resolution Anti-Aliasing High Resolution Apodizer High Resolution Array Processing High Resolution Biosphere Model High Resolution Camera High Resolution Capillary Gas Chromatography High Resolution Cloud Prognosis Model High Resolution Computed Tomography High Resolution Computerized Axial Tomography High Resolution Converter

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