anvil
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- noun
- /ˈæn.vɪl/
- Specialized
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- It uses two diamond anvils, which exert pressure and serve as windows on the sample.
- anvil cell
Examples
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And you can see that there are a linkage of three bones, the hammer, anvil and stirrup, or if you will in ancient language, malleus, incus and stapes.
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Beside the infant, in exactly the same position, was a little anvil no bigger than a thimble.
Academic text (2006) -
And in high school biology, you probably learned them as hammer, anvil and stirrup.
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The changes may be brought about in a quasi-static way, typically nowadays by the use of diamond-anvil cell devices.
Academic text (1998) -
And so if your ears have become generally damaged through Gen., you know what you might call the subtle, was it the anvil and the stirrup and so forth.
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THE DIAMOND-ANVIL CELL has emerged as the dominant and most versatile tool for achieving ultralight pressures.
Academic text (1998) -
He had the presence of mind to bring his mallet and jeweler's anvil all the way from Lancaster to New Guinea.
Fiction book (1991) -
Some of the most important diamond-anvil-cell measurements are those that exploit the high brightness of synchrotron radiation and laser techniques.
Academic text (1998) -
The vibrating eardrum jerks a bone called the hammer, which hits the anvil and moves the third bone, called the stapes.
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The anvil transmits sound vibrations from the hammer to the stirrup in the ear.
Synonyms
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A small anvil-shaped bone in the middle ear that passes sound to the next ear bone
A very small bone in the middle ear that helps carry sound to the inner ear
A very small bone in the middle ear that helps send sound to the inner ear
One of the three tiny bones in the middle ear that help you hear
One of three small bones in the middle ear
Idioms
To have to choose between two equally bad options while people on both sides pressure you
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Anvil is also the name of a small ear bone, and this meaning comes from the Latin word incus which means 'anvil' because the bone looks like the tool and helps 'receive and pass' sound vibrations to the next bone.