sun visor

1. 1.

   a shade (sometimes of green mica) affixed above the windshield of an automobile

   Broadershade

Questions about sun visor

What does sun visor mean?

sun visor means "a shade (sometimes of green mica) affixed above the windshield of an automobile".

Is sun visor a common word?

sun visor is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.