Definition of carrier. Meaning of carrier. Synonyms of carrier

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Definition of carrier

Carrier
Carrier Car"ri*er, n. [From Carry.] 1. One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger. The air which is but . . . a carrier of the sounds. --Bacon. 2. One who is employed, or makes it his business, to carry goods for others for hire; a porter; a teamster. The roads are crowded with carriers, laden with rich manufactures. --Swift. 3. (Mach.) That which drives or carries; as: (a) A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog. (b) A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine. (c) A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel. Carrier pigeon (Zo["o]l.), a variety of the domestic pigeon used to convey letters from a distant point to to its home. Carrier shell (Zo["o]l.), a univalve shell of the genus Phorus; -- so called because it fastens bits of stones and broken shells to its own shell, to such an extent as almost to conceal it. Common carrier (Law.) See under Common, a.

Meaning of carrier from wikipedia

- carrier may refer to: science : carrier wave , a waveform suitable for modulation by an information-bearing signal. charge carrier , an unbound
- an aircraft carrier is a warship designed with a primary mission of deploying and recovering aircraft, acting as a seagoing airbase .
- in telecommunications , a carrier signal, carrier wave, or just carrier, is a waveform (usually sinusoidal ) or sine wave that is modulated
- a common carrier in common-law countries (corresponding to a public carrier in civil-law systems usually called simply a carrier) is a
- the escort aircraft carrier or escort carrier, also called a 'jeep carrier' or 'baby flattop' in the usn or 'woolworth carrier' by the
- the carrier language is a northern athabaskan language . interior of british columbia , canada , for whom carrier is the usual english name.
- the universal carrier, also known (incorrectly) as the bren gun carrier is a common name describing a family of light armoured tracked
- companies by temporarily investing large sums of capital in air carriers, to rescheme an airlines assets into a profitable organization or
- in physics , a charge carrier is a particle free to move , carrying an electric charge , especially the particles that carry electric
- a genetic carrier (or just carrier), is a person or other organism that has inherited a genetic trait or mutation , but who does not