Carrier may refer to:
Entertainment
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''Carrier'' (album), a 2013 album by The Dodos
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''Carrier'' (board game), a South Pacific World War II board game
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''Carrier'' (TV series), a ten-part documentary miniseries that aired on PBS in April 2008
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''Carrier'' (video game), a 2000 video game for the Sega Dreamcast
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''Carriers'' (film), a 2009 post-apocalyptic horror film
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The Carrier (band), an American melodic hardcore band
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The Carrier, spaceship home to the Authority, a team of comic superheroes
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Carrier (podcast), a podcast produced by QCode and starring Cynthia Erivo
Science
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Carrier protein
A membrane transport protein 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 proteins; that is they ...
, a protein that facilitates the transport of another molecule
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Disease carrier (disambiguation), multiple uses in medicine
* Carrier, in
radioanalytical chemistry, a dilutent used to simplify radioanalytical separations
Technology
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Aircraft carrier
An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and hangar facilities for supporting, arming, deploying and recovering carrier-based aircraft, shipborne aircraft. Typically it is the ...
, a warship primarily hosting fixed-wing aircraft
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Carrier recovery in telecommunications
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Carrier signal
In telecommunications, a carrier wave, carrier signal, or just carrier, is a periodic waveform (usually sinusoidal) that conveys information through a process called ''modulation''. One or more of the wave's properties, such as amplitude or frequ ...
, a waveform suitable for modulation by an information-bearing signal
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Helicopter carrier, a warship primarily hosting helicopters
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Universal Carrier
The Universal Carrier, a development of the earlier Bren Gun Carrier from its light machine gun armament, was one of a family of light armoured tracked vehicles built by Vickers-Armstrongs and other companies.
The first carriers – the Br ...
, a tracked vehicle
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Wireless carrier
A mobile network operator (MNO), also known as a mobile network provider, mobile network carrier, mobile , wireless service provider, wireless carrier, wireless operator, wireless telco, or cellular company, is a telecommunications provider of se ...
, an organization that operates a wireless network for mobile phones
* Information carrier or substrate, the image in a
photographic layer
Other
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airline
An airline is a company that provides civil aviation, air transport services for traveling passengers or freight (cargo). Airlines use aircraft to supply these services and may form partnerships or Airline alliance, alliances with other airlines ...
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Carrier, Oklahoma
Carrier is an incorporated small village 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 ...
, a town in Garfield County, Oklahoma
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Carrier (surname), a surname and list of people with the name
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Carrier Global
Carrier Global Corporation is an American multinational heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), refrigeration, and fire and security equipment corporation based in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Carrier was founded in 1915 as an in ...
, air conditioning and commercial refrigeration manufacturing company
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Carrier language, the Athabaskan language of the Dakelh people
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Carrier pigeon
The homing pigeon is a variety of domestic pigeon (''Columba livia domestica''), selectively bred for its ability to find its way home over extremely long distances. Because of this skill, homing pigeons were used to carry messages, a practic ...
, a dove trained to transport messages
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Common carrier
A common carrier in common law countries (corresponding to a public carrier in some civil law (legal system), civil law systems,Encyclopædia Britannica CD 2000 "Civil-law public carrier" from "carriage of goods" usually called simply a ''carrier ...
, an organization that transports a product or service
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JMA Wireless Dome
The JMA Wireless Dome, originally the Carrier Dome (1980–2022), is a domed stadium in Syracuse, New York, Syracuse, New York (state), New York, United States. Located on the campus of Syracuse University in the University Hill, Syracuse, Univer ...
, formerly known as the Carrier Dome, in Syracuse, New York
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Mail carrier, a postal worker
See also
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Pet carrier
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