windshield

     

The windshield or windscreen of an aircraft, car, bus, motorbike or tram is the front window. Modern windshields are generally made of laminated safety glass, a type of treated glass, which consists of two (typically) curved sheets of glass with a plastic layer laminated between them for safety, and are glued into the window frame.

Trivia about windshield

  • It's the glass above a car's dashboard
  • It's a windscreen to the limeys, but it's one of these to us Yanks