Visor

For other uses, seeVisor (disambiguation).

Apollo 12 astronautAlan Bean,wearing a helmet with visor, during the second moonwalk EVA near Sharp Crater.

Sports visordesigned in Seoul, South Korea

An Arai GP5 racing drivers helmet tinted visor

Avisor(also spelledvizor) is a surface thatprotects the eyes,such as shading them from the sun or other bright light or protecting them from objects.

Nowadays many visors are transparent, but before strong transparent substances such aspolycarbonatewere invented, visors were opaque like amask.

• The part of a helmetin a suit of armor that protects the eyes.
• A type ofheadgearconsisting only of a visor and a band as a way to fasten it around the head.
• Any such vertical surface on any hat or helmet.
• Any such horizontal surface on any hat or helmet (called apeakinBritish English).
• A device in anautomobilethat the driver or front passenger can lower over part of thewindshieldto block the sun (sun visor).

Modern era

Some modern devices called visors are similar, for example:

• Visor (ice hockey)

Types of modern transparent visors include:

• The transparent or semi-transparent front part of amotorcycle helmetorriot helmet(sometimes shaded/tinted)
• The transparent or semi-transparent, heavily shaded/tinted, front part of awelding mask
• Safetyface shieldsused in construction, industry, or medical settings
• Aneyeshieldto protect the eyes from sunlight on an American football helmet
• A shield to protect the eyes from sunlight on a flight helmet or space suit
• Green eyeshades,formerly worn byaccountantsand others engaged in vision-intensive, detail-oriented occupation.

See also

• Visard,a type of mask worn by fashionable women in the 16th and 17th centuries