The Collaborative International Dictionary
Visor \Vis"or\, n. [OE. visere, F. visi[`e]re, fr. OF. vis. See Visage, Vision.] [Written also visar, visard, vizard, and vizor.]
A part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face. The openings for seeing and breathing are generally in it.
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A mask used to disfigure or disguise. ``My very visor began to assume life.''
--Shak.My weaker government since, makes you pull off the visor.
--Sir P. Sidney. The fore piece of a cap, projecting over, and protecting the eyes.
Wikipedia
The acronym VISAR may refer to:
- Velocity Interferometer System for Any Reflector, see Velocity Interferometer System for Any Reflector (VISAR)
- Video Image Stabilization and Registration, see NASA_spin-off#Video_enhancing_and_analysis_systems
- The name of a fictional computer system in James P. Hogan's Giants series. See also List of fictional computers
Usage examples of "visar".
Rather than try to compose a routine for constructing some physically visualizable depiction of the abstract patterns of intercellular transactions taking place in the Entoverse, VISAR would endow its pseudo-Ents with ready-made patterns of conceptual associations extracted from the hosts.
There would be no point in trying to get to any of the Thurien couplers into VISAR, since those would have been the first places to be secured.
Hunt, whatever the nature of the bound pattern of cells that VISAR had needed to commandeer to create his Ent-equivalent acceptable to other Ents, would look, to himself, like Huntmodified and appareled in whatever way VISAR judged appropriate to the circumstances that it discerned.
Ecsvan had suggested that maybe they could create a purpose-devised organism that would be an ideal vehicle for Ents wishing to transfer to the Exoversein effect, what VISAR had improvised in the form of its Ent-being surrogates, but working the other way around.
The strange thing was that, monstrous as these Phantasmagorian creatures were, he should describe them as composites of familiar formsThomas was using the closest-fitting terms from his Baumer-bequeathed vocabulary, which was German but converted to English by VISAR.
According to VISAR, they could shed their roots and migrate downhill on bulbous pseudopods if the soil became too dry.
VISAR reported that they had not rematerialized anywhere inside the regions of space that it controlled, and when it projected small transfer ports to the scores of worlds previously run by JEVEX and sent search probes bristling with sensors and instruments, the ships were not to be found at any of those places, either.
Jevlen was light-years away from Gistar, and the only way of getting ships there was through black-hole toroids projected by VISAR.
And this time, Hunt conceded, even with his experience of the machine's abilities, VISAR had exceeded itself.
VISAR noticed that the predicted displacements were present in some of the views we were shown, but completely missing from others.
In reality they were still coupled into VISAR at different locations, including Caldwell in Washington, and Leyel Torres aboard the Shapieron at Geerbaine, and not together in the same room as they perceived.
Calazar and Caldwell are through in the command deck via VISAR, waiting to talk to you.
He therefore instructed VISAR to edit out of the data-stream sent to JE VEX, and hence to the participants on Jevlen, all information pertaining to those two groups.
That one fact would account for the absence in the Entoverse of the invariances of dimension with motionand because of the effects attributed to the planetary rotation that VISAR had inferred, with time and with spatial orientation, toothat gave the Exoverse the regularity and consistency that made possible the organized body of knowledge called science, the construction of machines, and the technologies that sprang from using them.
That one fact would account for the absence in the Entoverse of the invariances of dimension with motion—and because of the effects attributed to the planetary rotation that VISAR had inferred, with time and with spatial orientation, too—that gave the Exoverse the regularity and consistency that made possible the organized body of knowledge called science, the construction of machines, and the technologies that sprang from using them.