1A stiff brim at the front of a cap.

1. 1.1 A movable part of a helmet that can be pulled down to cover the face.
   Example sentencesExamples

   • As I turned onto the nearly empty streets I opened the visor on my full-face helmet to help get some air.
   • Amanda wiped her sleeve across her face and adjusted her helmet visor, which she'd decided to wear for the special occasion.
   • Then, as the people who had arrived to attend the meeting were gathering outside the venue, two men wearing helmets with visors covering their faces approached the crowd.
   • One was the Winged Messenger of old, eight feet tall in a silvered suit and a helmet with a reflective visor and golden wings that covered his head and neck completely.
   • From helmet, visors / sunglasses to raincoat, latex gloves or waterproof pants, vests and boots - we got to have them all or else you are going to travel cold, shivering and unable to focus.
   • The troops will be equipped with modern flame-retardant suits, helmets and visors and special public order long batons and shields.
   • The helmet had a monochrome visor that covered the entire face, which made him feel as though he were in a dark closet.
   • Tests showed the gadget, which riders attach to the inside of fixed visors on their helmets to act as sunglasses, only let through three per cent of light.
   • Hayden pulled down the visor of his helmet as the sun rose higher.
   • This person was wearing black clothing and had a dark-tinted visor on their helmet.
   • One by one, each knight closes the visor on his helmet.
   • Pulling the visor up on the helmet I repeated my previous statement and smacked him on the arm.
   • Most fortunately, the visor on my helmet was down and I suffered only a momentary loss of vision.
   • The court also heard that Sami would have had an impaired view of the road, either from spray on the visor of his crash helmet or from him taking his hand off the bike to clear it.
   • They all unsealed their helmets and opened their visors.
   • With a grin behind his visor and helmet, he drifted toward her.
   • The Health Board is to write again to the GAA urging it to make the wearing of helmets with visors compulsory in hurling following the revelation that four eyes have been blinded due to hurling injuries in Waterford and Cork since June.
   • He was wearing a motorcycle helmet and had the visor pulled down in front of his face.
   • He was lucky to have the visor down on his helmet, as he could have been struck on his eye or his nose.
   • Leading Firefighter Andy Hopkinson braved temperatures so high they melted helmet visors and smoke detectors.
2. 1.2 A screen for protecting the eyes from unwanted light, especially one at the top of a vehicle windshield.
   Example sentencesExamples

   • Instead of giving up books, she figured out that if she used a dental visor with a strong light and a magnifying glass, she could read for a few hours.
   • If your doctor suggests that you try light therapy, you will use a special light box or a light visor that you wear on your head like a cap.
   • They placed the gel electrodes to their temples and the strobe visor in front of their eyes.
   • Consider, for example, an automotive visor, It is a two-piece part (excluding the mounting hardware).
   • In hot weather, a visor is cooler than a cap, because it doesn't trap the heat.
   • South-facing classrooms required solar protection and, to maintain daylighting, horizontal visors were designed to act as reflectors, bouncing light up on to the ceiling.
   • The glass of the screen shattered as well as the visor.
   • Then I added a few other odds and ins such as euro lights, window visors, floor mats, racing pedals, and headlight covers.
   • It clips to pockets, lapels, vehicle visors, gun cases - almost anywhere.
   • In another scene, bright light glints off the visors of scores of young-looking cops in full riot regalia shifting uneasily in the sun, as a dull rumble grows from somewhere offscreen.
   • This is why many pros wear sunglasses or visors / caps when playing, they know that the eyes rarely lie.
   • The Sweep is available in both road and mountain versions; the only difference is a tidy plastic visor stuck onto the front of the off-road model.
   • Light visors, which are worn like caps and provide patients with increased portability, are another available source of light therapy.
   • In her experiments she either stood face-to-face with them - protected by a plastic visor - or she used photos.
   • A person could place his hand in an x-ray beam before a luminescent screen and view his own bones through a hooded visor.
   • Light therapy is the recommended first-line treatment for SAD. Light boxes are most often used for light therapy, but dawn light simulation and light visors are also available.
   • Vix activated her rearview screen in her visor and gasped as Troy held off a pair of fighters with bursts of chaingun and plasma cannon fire.
   • The soldier's visors automatically adjusted the light for them after a few moments.
   • Others use light visors, sunglasses-like visors with small lights inside.
   • When you are looking for a replacement part, be it a replacement visor or a clutch master cylinder, the array of available sources can be hard to sift through.
3. 1.3historical A mask.
   Example sentencesExamples

   • The young Spellweaver could barely make out his face, which was masked by a full visor.

   Synonyms

   disguise, veil, false face, domino, stocking mask, fancy dress

   face mask, protective mask, gas mask, oxygen mask, fencing mask, iron mask, ski mask, dust mask