Editing Visor

{{Short description|Surface that protects the eyes}}
{{Other uses}}

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[[File:Apollo12Visor.jpg|thumb|Apollo 12 astronaut [[Alan Bean]], wearing a helmet with visor, during the second moonwalk EVA near Sharp Crater.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a12/images12.html |title=Apollo 12 Image Library |publisher=History.nasa.gov |access-date=2013-11-26}}</ref>]]
[[File:Black visor.jpg|thumb|[[Sports visor]] designed in Seoul, South Korea]]
[[File:Micheal Fitzgerald Arai Racing Helmet.jpg|thumb|An Arai GP5 racing drivers helmet tinted visor]]
A '''visor''' (also spelled '''vizor''') is a surface that [[Eye protection|protects 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 as [[polycarbonate]] were invented, visors were opaque like a [[mask]].
*[[Visor (armor)|The part of a helmet]] in a suit of armor that protects the eyes.
*A type of [[Sports visor|headgear]] consisting 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 a ''[[Peaked cap|peak]]'' in [[British English]]).
*A device in an [[automobile]] that the driver or front passenger can lower over part of the [[windshield]] to block the sun ([[sun visor]]).<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Definition of VISOR|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/visor|access-date=2021-05-26|website=www.merriam-webster.com|language=en}}</ref>
*As [[masque]] costume, [[Henry VIII]] and his courtiers wore "visors of good proportion of [[physiognomy]]".<ref>Richard P. Sylvester and Davis P. Harding, ''Two Earl Tudor Lives: Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey'' (Yale, 1962), p. 27.</ref>

== 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 a [[motorcycle helmet]] or [[riot helmet]] (sometimes shaded/tinted)
* The transparent or semi-transparent, heavily shaded/tinted, front part of a [[welding mask]]
*Safety [[face shield]]s used in construction, industry, or medical settings
*An [[eyeshield]] to 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 eyeshade]]s, formerly worn by [[accountants]] and 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

==References==
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[[Category:Hats]]
[[Category:Riot control equipment]]
[[Category:Safety clothing]]