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carrier
[ kar-ee-er ]
noun
- a person or thing that carries.
- an employee of the post office who carries mail.
- a person who delivers newspapers, magazines, etc., on a particular route.
- Transportation.
- an individual or company, as a railroad or steamship line, engaged in transporting passengers or goods for profit.
- Insurance. a company that acts or functions as an underwriter or insurer.
- a frame, usually of metal, attached to a vehicle for carrying skis, luggage, etc., as on top of an automobile or station wagon; rack.
- Immunology. an individual harboring specific pathogenic organisms who, though often immune to the agent harbored, may transmit the disease to others.
- Genetics.
- an individual possessing an unexpressed, recessive trait.
- the bearer of a defective gene.
- Also called carrier wave. Radio. the wave whose amplitude, frequency, or phase is to be varied or modulated to transmit a signal.
- Machinery. a mechanism by which something is carried or moved.
- Chemistry. a catalytic agent that brings about a transfer of an element or group of atoms from one compound to another.
- Also called charge carrier. Physics. any of the mobile electrons or holes in a metal or semiconductor that enable it to conduct electrical charge.
- Physical Chemistry. a usually inactive substance that acts as a vehicle for an active substance.
- Painting. base 1( def 16b ).
carrier
1/ ˈkærɪə /
noun
- a person, thing, or organization employed to carry goods, passengers, etc
- a mechanism by which something is carried or moved, such as a device for transmitting rotation from the faceplate of a lathe to the workpiece
- pathol another name for vector
- pathol a person or animal that, without having any symptoms of a disease, is capable of transmitting it to others
- Also calledcharge carrier physics an electron, ion, or hole that carries the charge in a conductor or semiconductor
- short for carrier wave
- chem
- the inert solid on which a dyestuff is adsorbed in forming a lake
- a substance, such as kieselguhr or asbestos, used to support a catalyst
- an inactive substance containing a radioisotope used in radioactive tracing
- an inert gas used to transport the sample through a gas-chromatography column
- a catalyst that effects the transfer of an atom or group from one molecule to another
- See aircraft carrier
- a breed of domestic fancy pigeon having a large walnut-shaped wattle over the beak; a distinct variety of pigeon from the homing or carrier pigeon See also carrier pigeon
- a US name for roof rack
Carrier
2/ ˈkærɪə /
noun
- a member of an Athapaskan Native North American people of British Columbia
carrier
/ kăr′ē-ər /
- A person, animal, or plant that serves as a host for a pathogen and can transmit it to others, but is immune to it. Mosquitoes are carriers of malaria.
- An organism that carries a gene for a trait but does not show the trait itself. Carriers can produce offspring that express the trait by mating with another carrier of the same gene.
- See more at recessive
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- in·ter·car·ri·er noun
- non·car·ri·er noun
- su·per·car·ri·er noun
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