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The definition of a carrier is a person, thing or company that delivers something.
(noun)- An example of a carrier is a postal worker who delivers mail.
- An example of a carrier is a cat carrier that you would use to take your cat to the vet.
- An example of a carrier is the company such as AT&T that provides your telephone service.
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See carrier in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- a person or thing that carries, as one who delivers mail or newspapers, or a train, bus, airplane, etc.
- a person or company in the business of transporting goods or passengers
- a company in the business of providing telephone service
- a messenger or porter
- a container, support, or course in or on which something is carried or conducted, as a mechanical part or device or a water conduit
- a reclining plastic seat for a baby, which may be carried or set down
- a company that insures a certain person, organization, etc.
- aircraft carrier
- a person or animal that carries and transmits disease germs or recessive genes, esp. a person who does not seem to be affected by them
- Chem.
- a catalytic agent that causes an element or radical to be transferred from one compound to another
- a body which supports the catalyst deposited in or on it
- a relatively large quantity of a stable substance that is combined with a minute quantity of an isotope, esp. one that is a radioactive tracer, to facilitate its handling
- Electronics an electron, ion, hole, etc. whose movement constitutes a flow of electric current
- Radio, TV the steady transmitted wave whose amplitude, frequency, or phase is modulated by the signal
Origin: ME carier < carien, carry
See carrier in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- One that transports or conveys: baggage carriers; a message carrier.
- One, such as a person, business, or organization, that deals in the transport of passengers or goods.
- A mechanism or device by which something is conveyed or conducted.
- Medicine A person or an animal that shows no symptoms of a disease but harbors the infectious agent of that disease and is capable of transmitting it to others.
- Genetics An individual that carries one gene for a particular recessive trait. A carrier does not express the trait but, when mated with another carrier, can produce offspring that do.
- Electronics a. A carrier wave.b. A charge-carrying entity, especially an electron or a hole in a semiconductor.
- An aircraft carrier.
- An insurance or underwriting organization.
- A telecommunications company.
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