A piece of armor plate (with eye slits) fixed or hinged to a medieval helmet to protect the face

Usage examples of visor.

Maybe, I thought as I read this report, soldiers could wear a visor that intensified images through the reflection and amplification of available light and navigate in the darkness of a battlefield with as much confidence as if they were walking their sentry posts in broad daylight.

Slapping down his half visor, Bili uncased his axe, wishing for the umpteenth time that it was reliable Mahvros he bestrode, rather than this green, less than intelligent gelding.

A few spots of crimson now stained the mauve burka just below the mesh of the visor.

Only the microfilters in his visor kept him from making twice as many errors as he was already making.

Mason noted that they wore helmets, visors, and overalls with micromesh ring mail stitched in, and that one of them stood guard with a pump-action shotgun.

Brown holds one of the little cylinders close to his visor, and uses a stylus to poke at microswitches inside it.

Apart from the oddly shaped face just barely visible through the dark visor, the creature descending the ramp might almost have been a slightly misproportioned human.

Everything was built into the MHW and secured as tightly as the photochromic visor.

He fixed the light to his visor, grasped the pistolet in his teeth, and began the ascent.

He folded the cape up, slipped it into his pack, holstered the pistolet, clamped his light in his visor, reversed the orientor, picked his wife up in his arms, and started out.

He was an ugly, rattish man, this stowaway, and his eyes glared up from beneath the twisted visor of his shabby cap.

When the dogs were seated but the air system had only begun repressurizing the cabin, Piet Ricimer opened his visor.

He pulled his visor back down and began resurveying the orbital imagery, looking for cutoff points and assault landing zones.

Marla turned to look at Seeress Jenoset, whose stunned face was barely visible behind the visor in her helmet.

Had it not been for Design Toscano Historical Reproductions for Home and Garden, I might never have learned that the three parts of a sixteenth-century close helmet are the visor, the ventail, and the beaver.