heads-up display

noun

plural heads-up displays

: a system that projects information onto a usually transparent surface that sits directly in a user's line of vision

The "heads-up display," or "HUD," projects an image of the speedometer, fuel gauges and other controls onto the windshield, so that a motorist could read them without looking away from the road.

—Warren Brown

… helping to develop flight simulators and heads-up display helmets that let airplane pilots see gauges and flight data without having to look down at the instrument panel …

—Sabra Chartrand

—abbreviation HUD

Examples of heads-up display in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The company pitched it as a way to give people working in medical, agricultural, and factory settings a heads-up display that would feed them information while keeping their hands free. —Mitchell Clark, The Verge, 15 Mar. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1964, in the meaning defined above