Editing Windshield (section)

==Terminology==
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[[File:BB1 aeroscreen.JPG|thumb|Singled aero screen on [[Bentley Blower No.1]]]]
The term ''windshield'' is used generally throughout the US and Canada. The term ''windscreen'' is the usual term in the [[British Isles]] and [[Australasia]] for all vehicles. In the US ''windscreen'' refers to [[Microphone#Windscreens|the mesh or foam placed over a microphone to minimize wind noise]], while a ''windshield'' refers to the front window of a car.
In the UK, the terms are reversed, although generally, the foam screen is referred to as a microphone shield, and not a windshield.

Sports or racing cars would sometimes have '''aero screens''', which were small semi-circular or rectangular windshields.  These were often mounted in pairs behind a foldable flat windshield.<ref>{{cite book|last= Beattie|first= Ian|title= The Complete Book of Automobile Body Design|year= 1977|publisher= The Haynes Publishing Group|location= Yeovil, UK|isbn= 0854292179|page=22}}</ref> Aero screens are usually less than {{convert|8|in|cm|abbr=in|order=flip}} in height. They are known as aero screens because they only deflect the wind.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}{{dubious| The common understanding is that the terminology derived from the use of such screens on early airplanes.|date=December 2022}} The twin aeroscreen setup (often called [[Brooklands]]) was popular among older sports and modern cars in vintage style.

A ''wiperless windshield'' is a windshield that uses a mechanism other than [[windshield wiper|wiper]]s to remove snow and rain from the windshield. The concept car [[Acura TL]] features a wiperless windshield using a series of jet [[nozzle]]s in the [[cowling|cowl]] to blow [[Pressure|pressurized air]] onto the windshield. Also several glass manufacturers have experimented with nano type coatings designed to repel external contaminants with varying degrees of success but to date none of these have made it to commercial applications.

In the context of [[Cargo ship|cargo ships]], a windshield may refer to a [[bow windshield]], a structure fitted on the bow to decrease [[Drag (physics)|drag]] and improve [[fuel efficiency]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Wang |first=Guanxiang |last2=Feng |first2=Yukun |last3=Dai |first3=Yi |last4=Chen |first4=Zuogang |last5=Wu |first5=Yanfeng |date=2024-12-01 |title=Optimization design of a windshield for a 12,000 TEU container ship based on a support vector regression surrogate model |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0029801824027434 |journal=Ocean Engineering |volume=313 |pages=119405 |doi=10.1016/j.oceaneng.2024.119405 |issn=0029-8018|url-access=subscription }}</ref>