Carrier
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Carrier has several different meanings:
- 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 Carrier tribe, a First Nations tribe living in British Columbia, Canada; also the name of their Athabaskan language
- a common carrier, a transport business (shipping or telecom)
- an aircraft carrier
- Willis Carrier, the inventor of air-conditioning
- Carrier, a video game for the Sega Dreamcast
- the town of Carrier, Oklahoma
- a unit in the computer game StarCraft, the Protoss Carrier.
- the enormous living interdimensional spaceship home to the Authority