carrier

n. one who ships; one who carries; messanger; thing that carries; aircraft carrier; shipping company; truck; steamship or vessel for carrying goods or transporting passengers; post-office worker who carries mail; person who delivers newspapers on a specific route; person (or animal) who transmits a disease to others but does not suffer from it themselves; signal transmitted over a telephone line when two computers are connected through modems (Computers); telecommunications company

Carrier has several very different meanings: in Science (physics, electronics, biology, mathematics, chemistry and other sciences)Carrier wave, a waveform suitable for modulation by an information-bearing signalCharge carrier, in physics a free (mobile, unbound) particle carrying an electric chargein mathematics, the set over which a Boolean algebra is defined is the carrier. Carrier-protein, a protein that facilitates the transport of another moleculeAsymptomatic carrier, a person who is infected with an infectious disease or carries the abnormal gene of a recessive genetic disorder, but displays no symptomsChloroorganic carrier, a group of molecules that facilitates the transport of dyes into a fiberCarrier recovery in telecommunicationsin Society or Geographythe Dakelh (known in English as the Carrier), an indigenous First Nations people of British Columbia, Canada Carrier language, the Athabaskan language of the Dakelh peopleCarrier, Oklahoma, a town in Garfield County, Oklahoma, United States
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n. quarryman, one who excavates stone from a quarry, quarrier

n. carrier, aircraft carrier

n. carrier, aircraft carrier, one who ships; one who carries; shipping company; truck; signal transmitted over a telephone line when two computers are connected through modems (Computers)