Carrier may refer to:

Entertainment

* ''Carrier'' (album), a 2013 album by The Dodos * ''Carrier'' (board game), a South Pacific World War II board game * ''Carrier'' (TV series), a ten-part documentary miniseries that aired on PBS in April 2008 * ''Carrier'' (video game), a 2000 video game for the Sega Dreamcast * ''Carriers'' (film), a 2009 post-apocalyptic horror film * The Carrier (band), an American melodic hardcore band * The Carrier, spaceship home to the Authority, a team of comic superheroes

Science

* Carrier is a diluent used to simplify radioanalytical separations. *

Carrier protein A membrane transport protein (or simply transporter) is a membrane protein involved in the movement of ions, small molecules, and macromolecules, such as another protein, across a biological membrane. Transport proteins are integral transmembrane ...

, a protein that facilitates the transport of another molecule *

Genetic carrier A hereditary carrier (genetic carrier or just carrier), is a person or other organism that has inherited a recessive allele for a genetic trait or mutation but usually does not display that trait or show symptoms of the disease. Carriers are, ho ...

, an organism that has inherited a genetic trait or mutation * Asymptomatic carrier, an organism infected with an infectious disease agent

Technology

* Aircraft carrier, a warship primarily hosting fixed-wing aircraft *

Carrier recovery A carrier recovery system is a circuit used to estimate and compensate for frequency and phase differences between a received signal's carrier wave and the receiver's local oscillator for the purpose of coherent demodulation. In the transmitter ...

in telecommunications *

Carrier signal In telecommunications, a carrier wave, carrier signal, or just carrier, is a waveform (usually sinusoidal) that is modulated (modified) with an information-bearing signal for the purpose of conveying information. This carrier wave usually has ...

, a waveform suitable for modulation by an information-bearing signal *

Helicopter carrier A helicopter carrier is a type of aircraft carrier whose primary purpose is to operate helicopters, and has a large flight deck that occupies a substantial part of the deck, which can extend the full length of the ship like of the Royal Navy ...

, a warship primarily hosting helicopters *

Universal Carrier The Universal Carrier, also known as the Bren Gun Carrier and sometimes simply the Bren Carrier from the light machine gun armament, is a common name describing a family of light armoured tracked vehicles built by Vickers-Armstrongs and othe ...

, a tracked vehicle *

Wireless carrier A mobile network operator (MNO), also known as a wireless service provider, wireless carrier, cellular company, or mobile network carrier, is a provider of wireless communications services that owns or controls all the elements necessary to sell ...

, an organization that operates a wireless network for mobile phones * Information carrier or substrate, the image in a photographic layer

Other

Carrier, Oklahoma Carrier is a town in Garfield County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 85 at the 2010 census. History The area around Carrier was first settled by farmers who moved there following the opening of the Cherokee Outlet in 1893.Everett, ...

, a town in Garfield County, Oklahoma * Carrier Global Corporation, air conditioning and commercial refrigeration manufacturing company *

Carrier language The Dakelh (ᑕᗸᒡ) or Carrier language is a Northern Athabaskan language. It is named after the Dakelh people, a First Nations people of the Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada, for whom Carrier has been a common English name derive ...

, the Athabaskan language of the Dakelh people * Carrier pigeon, a dove trained to transport messages *

Common carrier A common carrier in common law countries (corresponding to a public carrier in some civil law systems,Encyclopædia Britannica CD 2000 "Civil-law public carrier" from "carriage of goods" usually called simply a ''carrier'') is a person or compan ...

, an organization that transports a product or service *

JMA Wireless Dome The JMA Wireless Dome, originally the Carrier Dome (1980–2022) and colloquially called "The Dome," or more recently "The JMA Dome," is a domed sports stadium in Syracuse, New York. Located on the campus of Syracuse University in the University ...

, formerly known as the Carrier Dome, in Syracuse, New York *

Mail carrier A mail carrier, mailman, mailwoman, postal carrier, postman, postwoman, or letter carrier (in American English), sometimes colloquially known as a postie (in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom), is an employee of a post ...

, a postal worker

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