Carrier

For people named Carrier, see Carrier (surname).

Carrier may refer to:

Entertainment

• Carrier (album), a 2013 album by The Dodos
• Carrier (game), a South Pacific World War II board game
• Carrier (TV series), a ten-part documentary miniseries that aired on PBS in April 2008
• Carrier (video game), a 2000 video game for the Sega Dreamcast
• Carriers (film), a 2009 post-apocalyptic horror film
• The Carrier (band), an American melodic hardcore band
• The Carrier, spaceship home to the Authority, a team of comic superheroes

Science

• Carrier is a diluent used to simplify radioanalytical separations.
• Carrier protein, a protein that facilitates the transport of another molecule
• Genetic carrier, an organism that has inherited a genetic trait or mutation
• Asymptomatic carrier, an organism infected with an infectious disease agent

Technology

• Aircraft carrier, a warship primarily hosting fixed-wing aircraft
• Carrier recovery in telecommunications
• Carrier signal, a waveform suitable for modulation by an information-bearing signal
• Helicopter carrier, a warship primarily hosting helicopters
• Universal Carrier, a tracked vehicle
• Wireless carrier, an organization that operates a wireless network for mobile phones
• Information carrier or substrate, the image in a photographic layer

Other

• Carrier, Oklahoma, a town in Garfield County, Oklahoma
• Carrier Dome, in Syracuse, New York
• Carrier Global Corporation, air conditioning and commercial refrigeration manufacturing company
• Carrier language, the Athabaskan language of the Dakelh people
• Carrier pigeon, a dove trained to transport messages
• Common carrier, an organization that transports a product or service
• Mail carrier, a postal worker

See also

• Disease carrier (disambiguation) in medicine