Illustration of visor
- V visor 1
variants
or less commonly vizor
1
: the front piece of a helmet
especially
: a movable upper piece
2
a
: a projecting front on a cap or headband for shading the eyes
b
: a usually movable flat sunshade attached at the top of an automobile windshield
3
a
: a face mask
b
: disguise
Examples of visor in a Sentence
the visor on your baseball cap should provide adequate shade for your eyes
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Moon dust plagued astronauts and spacecraft during NASA’s Apollo program in the mid-20th century, as the fine and abrasive material damaged camera lenses and visors, according to NASA.
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Jackie Wattles, CNN, 5 Mar. 2025
At the same time, responsible usage could actually offer a driver’s field of view that traditional visors obstruct.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 8 Jan. 2025
If Neel didn’t have blue skin and an elephant-like trunk, and if KB didn’t wear a Geordi LaForge-looking cybernetic visor, and if their school wasn’t partially staffed by droids, most of the early scenes could actually take place on contemporary earth.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2024
Tiny first-person-view drones, weighing just a few pounds and controlled remotely by a human operator wearing a visor displaying the drone’s front-facing camera feed, can get close enough—and can also squeeze into tight spaces.
—David Axe, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
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Jackie Wattles, CNN, 5 Mar. 2025
At the same time, responsible usage could actually offer a driver’s field of view that traditional visors obstruct.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 8 Jan. 2025
If Neel didn’t have blue skin and an elephant-like trunk, and if KB didn’t wear a Geordi LaForge-looking cybernetic visor, and if their school wasn’t partially staffed by droids, most of the early scenes could actually take place on contemporary earth.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2024
Tiny first-person-view drones, weighing just a few pounds and controlled remotely by a human operator wearing a visor displaying the drone’s front-facing camera feed, can get close enough—and can also squeeze into tight spaces.
—David Axe, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
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“Visor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/visor. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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visor
noun
vi·sor
variants
also vizor
ˈvī-zər
1
: a movable front upper piece on a helmet
2
: a projecting part (as on a cap or headband) to protect or shade the eyes
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