Transporter

Transporter

Transporter may refer to vehicles or transport:
* "transporter", a business or person involved in the transport of goods or people
* "transporter", a vehicle used to transport objects or material, especially a heavy hauler or related type of truck
* Transporter wagon for carrying railway wagons of one gauge on another gauge.
* animal transporter, a vehicle for transporting animals
* the Volkswagen Transporter, a model of van from Volkswagen and its variants:
** VW Type 2, the original rear engine Volkswagen Transporter
** VW Eurovan, the front engine Volkswagen Transporter produced from 1990

Transporter may also refer to:
* Membrane transport proteins, move molecules across biological membranes.
* "Transporter",series
** "The Transporter", a 2002 action movie starring Jason Statham
*** "Transporter 2".
**** "Transporter 3".
* Transporter (band), an Australian band
* Transporter (album), a 2004 self-published album by Immaculate Machine

The term transporter may also be used to refer to a device in science fiction:
* Teleportation devices, commonplace in science fiction.
* Transporter (Star Trek), teleportation devices in the Star Trek universe.
* Stargate usages:
** Atlantis teleporters — a technology used by the Ancients for transposing the contents of two teleporter rooms on Atlantis
** Asgard beaming device — a technology used by the Asgard for orbital ship to planetary surface or closer transport
** Ring Transporter — a technology used by the Goa'uld and Tok'ra for orbital ship to planetary surface or closer transpositioning via a set of rings that pop out of the ground or ceiling to surround the subjects at both ends
** Thor's Hammer — an automated teleportation device set up by the Asgard on one planet near the stargate to protect the planet's population from the Goa'uld.
** Wraith transporter — a technology used by the Wraith for transporting from a planetary surface to their Dart (low-altitude raiding) ships
* An iron clad gun ship, blockade runner, freighter, ram mounting around fifty cannons that appeared in First Earth.


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