Anvil (disambiguation)

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, a percussion instrument in modern symphony orchestra

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"

ee 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.