Carrier

Carrier has various meanings:

In Science (physics, electronics, biology, mathematics, chemistry and other sciences):
* Carrier wave, a waveform suitable for modulation by an information-bearing signal
* Charge carrier, an unbound particle carrying an electric charge
* a mathematical Set over which a Boolean algebra is defined.
* Carrier-protein, a protein that facilitates the transport of another molecule
* a Catalyst or other intermediary in a chemical reaction
* Asymptomatic carrier, an organism infected with an infectious disease agent, but displaying no symptoms
* Genetic carrier, an organism that has inherited a genetic trait or mutation, but displaying no symptoms
* Chloroorganic carrier, a group of molecules that facilitates the transport of dyes into a fiber
* an inert substance co-packaged with an active pharmaceutical drug
* Carrier (disease) in medicine.
* Gestational carrier, a surrogate mother

"'Technology:
* Carrier recovery in telecommunications
* Lathe carrier, a device that transfers motion to a workpiece
* NO CARRIER, a text message transmitted by a modem to a computer to indicate that it is not, or no longer, connected to a remote party.
* Carrier, a multiprotocol instant messenger.

Ethnography and geography:
* Carrier is the English name for the Dakelh, an indigenous First Nations people of British Columbia, Canada
* Carrier language, the Athabaskan language of the Dakelh people
* Carrier, Oklahoma, a town in Garfield County, Oklahoma, United States
* The Carrier Dome, a multi-sport, domed athletic facility in Syracuse, New York, named for the Carrier Corporation.

Commerce:
* Wireless carrier, an organization that operates a wireless network for mobile phones
* Common carrier, an organization that transports a product or service using its facilities, or those of other carriers, and offers its services to the general public
* Carrier Corporation, the air conditioning and commercial refrigeration manufacturing division of United Technologies, named after its founder, Willis Carrier
* Carrier (telephony, networking), A term used to refer to various telephone companies that provide local, long distance or value added services. A system or systems whereby many channels of electrical information can be carried over a single transmission path
* CARRIERS-interconnect, software company that offers products and solutions for worldwide telecommunication businesses
* Mail carrier, a postal worker

Entertainment:
* "Carrier" (video game), a video game for the Sega Dreamcast play system
* "Carrier Command", a simulator game for Amiga and many other platforms
* "Carrier" (game), a South Pacific World War II board game from Victory Games
* "Carrier" (documentary), a ten-part documentary miniseries that aired on PBS in April 2008
* Carrier, a Protoss capital ship and fighter platform in the "StarCraft" science-fiction series.
* The Carrier, the enormous living interdimensional spaceship home to the Authority, a team of comic superheroes
* "Carriers", a 1998 film
* Helicarrier, a flying aircraft carrier from the Marvel Comics.

Other:
* Aircraft carrier, a type of warship
* an informal abbreviation of carrier bag