Anvil (disambiguation)

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An anvil is a tool used by metalworkers such as blacksmiths.

Anvil may also be:

• Anvil cloud or anvil dome, a cumulonimbus cloud or other type of cloud shaped like the tool
• Incus, a bone in the middle ear shaped like the tool
• Anvil Studio, a free MIDI music composition computer program by Willow Software
• The Anvil, nickname of professional wrestler Jim Neidhart.
• Anvil (band), a Canadian heavy metal music band
• Anvil (editor), a physics/textures/sounds editor for the computer game Marathon Infinity
• Anvil (pesticide), a sprayed pesticide used in mosquito control.

Anvil may also refer to:

• Operation Noble Anvil, the US part of the 1999 NATO war in Yugoslavia
• Digital Anvil, a computer game company founded in 1996
• Anvil Chorus, a chorus from Act 2, Scene 1 of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore
• Anvil of Stars, a book by Greg Bear
• Christopher Anvil, a pseudonym of writer Harry C. Crosby
• Diamond anvil cell, a tool for high-pressure physics research
• Anvil City, the original name of Nome, Alaska
• Anvil the Rhino, a villain of the television show Ace Lightning
• "Anvil with the book", the original symbol of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
• The City of Anvil, Cyrodiil, a fictional place in the game The Elder Scrolls

[edit] See also

• Stapler and staple gun
• Goibniu
• Television Without Pity, where "anvil" and "anvilicious" are common slang terms, regarding the introduction of certain plot points, usually in a heavy-handed, overly obvious fashion.