variants also vizor
as in brim
the projecting front part of a hat or cap the visor on your baseball cap should provide adequate shade for your eyes

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Recent Examples of visor Fresh new visors feature a coating that should improve astronauts’ visibility, even in scenarios where lunar dust kicks up. Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2024 Following their walks through the moon dust, Apollo astronauts found regolith obscuring their helmet visors, grinding inside joints of their spacesuits, tracking inside their spacecraft and compromising vacuum seals. Josh Dinner, Space.com, 14 Jan. 2025 This was the Bears’ first road win of the season and their first Sunday afternoon road win since Dec. 26, 2022, when Matt Nagy was still rocking a Bears visor. Jon Greenberg, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025 His channeling funds into fine-tuning SpaceX’s astro-gear, which features futuristic helmets with instrument readings and other info digitally projected onto golden-colored visors, is only a small part of Isaacman’s incredible philanthropy. Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for visor 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for visor
Noun
  • This month’s stargazing agenda brims with planet sightings.
    Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 1 Feb. 2025
  • But that said, this is a gorgeous restaurant in many senses: The room is midcentury-modern effervescence, the staff brims with engaged pros, and Namba’s cooking grafts Japanese and French flavors in smart, fresh ways.
    Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • For spring 2025, the edgy essential is back and in shades other than jet black.
    Laura Jackson, Vogue, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Those products include a Colour Correcting Serum, which comes in six shades and refines pores with rosebay willowherb extract, as well as a Kazanlak rose complex that focuses on texture and firmness.
    James Manso, WWD, 3 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Trump administration vows to rehire DOGE Treasury Department employee who resigned over racist posts Turco said Lincoln, whose likeness is also on the $5 bill, was added to the coin in 1909.
    Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 11 Feb. 2025
  • The House voted on the spending bill on December 20.
    Ewan Palmer, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
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  • Here’s why: Although technical specifications are still being worked out, the new standard could deliver nominal peak data rates of more than 40Gbps.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 11 Feb. 2025
  • The second full moon of the year will reach its peak on Wednesday at 8:53 p.m. EDT, according to Space.com.
    Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2025

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“Visor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/visor. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.

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