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)
The Carrier was an American melodic hardcore band from Boston, Massachusetts, United States, which formed in 2006.
In 2006, the band self-released their debut demo whom they recorded with Jay Maas at the Getaway Group Studios. After a year of p ...
, 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)
Carrier is a podcast produced by QCode and starring Cynthia Erivo. The show is being adapted into a movie.
Background
The podcast was produced by QCode. The podcast was QCode's follow up to their first show '' Blackout''. The podcast stars Cy ...
, 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)
Disease carrier could refer to:
* Asymptomatic carrier, a person or organism infected with an infectious disease agent, but displays no symptoms
* Genetic carrier
A hereditary carrier (genetic carrier or just carrier), is a person or other orga ...
, multiple uses in medicine
* Carrier, in
radioanalytical chemistry Radioanalytical chemistry focuses on the analysis of sample for their radionuclide content. Various methods are employed to purify and identify the radioelement of interest through chemical methods and sample measurement techniques.
History
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, 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 helicopter carrier is a type of aircraft carrier whose primary purpose is to operate helicopters. It 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 (RN ...
, 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) Carrier is a surname, and may refer to:
* Albert Carrier (1919–2002), Italian-American actor
* Alexandre Carrier (born 1996), Canadian ice hockey player
* Corey Carrier (born 1980), American child actor
* Darel Carrier (born 1940), American p ...
, 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 Dakelh () 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 derived from F ...
, 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 mail carrier, also referred to as a mailman, mailwoman, mailperson, postal carrier, postman, postwoman, postperson, person of post, letter carrier (in American English), or colloquially postie (in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the Unite ...
, a postal worker
See also
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Pet carrier
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