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Relaxation includes idle leisure.

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 of recreation 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
• 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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