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carrier
noun Date: 14th century 1. one that carries ; bearer, messenger 2. a. an individual or organization engaged in transporting passengers or goods for hire b. a transportation line carrying mail between post offices c. a postal employee who delivers or collects mail d. one that delivers newspapers e. an entity (as a hole or an electron) capable of carrying an electric charge 3. a. a container for carrying b. a device or machine that carries ; conveyor 4. aircraft carrier 5. a. a bearer and transmitter of a causative agent of an infectious disease; especially one who carries the causative agent of a disease systemically but is asymptomatic or immune to it b. an individual (as one heterozygous for a recessive trait) having a specified gene that is not expressed or only weakly expressed in its phenotype 6. a. a usually inactive accessory substance ; vehicle <
a carrier for a drug or an insecticide
>
b. a substance (as a catalyst) by whose agency some element or group is transferred from one compound to another 7. a. an electromagnetic wave or alternating current whose modulations are used as communications signals (as in radio, telephonic, or telegraphic transmissions) b. a telecommunication company 8. an organization acting as an insurer

New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.

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  • Carrier — has various meanings:In Science (physics, electronics, biology, mathematics, chemistry and other sciences): * Carrier wave, a waveform suitable for modulation by an information bearing signal * Charge carrier, an unbound particle carrying an… …   Wikipedia

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  • carrier — [ karje ] n. m. • quarrier 1284; de 1. carrière ♦ Celui qui exploite une carrière comme entrepreneur ou comme ouvrier. Par appos. Un maître carrier; des ouvriers carriers. ⇒ 2. mineur, tailleur (de pierre). Masse, scie de carrier. ⊗ HOM. Carier.… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

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  • Carrier — Car ri*er, n. [From {Carry}.] 1. One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger. [1913 Webster] The air which is but . . . a carrier of the sounds. Bacon. [1913 Webster] 2. One who is employed, or makes it his business, to carry goods… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • CARRIER (J.-B.) — CARRIER JEAN BAPTISTE (1756 1794) Le plus fameux de ceux que Michelet a appelés «les missionnaires de la Terreur». Fils d’un cultivateur aisé du Cantal, procureur à la veille de la Révolution, Carrier est élu par son département d’origine à la… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • carrier — CARRIER. s. m. Ouvrier, homme de journée qui travaille à tirer la pierre des carrières; ou l Entrepreneur qui fait ouvrir une carrière pour en tirer de la pierre. Maître Carrier. Manoeuvre Carrier …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française 1798

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  • Carrier, OK — U.S. town in Oklahoma Population (2000): 77 Housing Units (2000): 30 Land area (2000): 1.216976 sq. miles (3.151954 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.216976 sq. miles (3.151954 sq. km) FIPS code …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • carrier — late 14c., agent noun from CARRY (Cf. carry). Meaning person or animal that carries and disseminates infection without suffering obvious disease is from 1899; genetic sense is 1933. As a short form of aircraft carrier it dates from 1917. Carrier… …   Etymology dictionary


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