Carriers

In general, a carrier is a system or process with a specific property or is attributed of something (in physical or in abstract sense). "Carrier" has several very different meanings:

• an individual or organization engaged in transporting passengers or goods for hire.
• in semiconductor physics, a charge carrier, either a free electron or an electron hole.
• in telecommunication, a carrier wave
• in biology, an asymptomatic carrier or a carrier-protein
• the Dakelh, an indigenous First Nations people in British Columbia, Canada, who were formerly referred to as the Carrier
• the Carrier language, the Athabaskan language of the Dakelh people
• a common carrier, a transport business (shipping or telecom)
• an aircraft carrier
• Willis Carrier, the inventor of air-conditioning
  • Carrier, the company which he founded
• Carrier, a video game for the Sega Dreamcast
• Carrier a South Pacific World War II game from Avalon Hill
• the town of Carrier, Oklahoma
• a unit in the computer game StarCraft, the Protoss Carrier.
• the enormous living interdimensional spaceship home to the Authority
• a Lathe carrier is a device that transfers motion to a workpiece.
• in mathematics, the set over which a Boolean algebra is defined is the carrier.