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   Car·ri·er

   /ˈkerēər/

   

   noun

   • 1. a person or thing that carries, holds, or conveys something: "water carriers"
   • 2. a person or company that undertakes the professional conveyance of goods or people: "Pan Am was the third US carrier to cease operations in 1991"
   • ▪ a vessel or vehicle for transporting people or things, especially goods in bulk: "the largest timber carrier ever to dock at a Malaysian port"
   • ▪ an aircraft carrier: "aircraft from the carrier Illustrious attacked the Italian fleet"
   • ▪ a company that provides facilities for conveying telecommunications messages: "Japan's biggest international telecoms carrier is Singapore Telecom"
   • 3. a person or animal that transmits a disease-causing organism to others, especially without themselves displaying symptoms: "the black rat, best known as carrier of bubonic plague"
   • ▪ a person or other organism that possesses a particular gene, especially as a single copy whose effect is masked by a dominant allele, so that the associated characteristic (such as a hereditary disease) is not displayed but may be passed to offspring: "the husband and wife may both be carriers of the same recessive gene, with a 25% chance of a diseased child"
   • 4. a substance used to support or convey another substance such as a pigment, catalyst, or radioactive material.
   • ▪ short for charge carrier
   • ▪ a molecule that transfers a specified molecule or ion within the body, especially across a cell membrane.

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   What do you mean by a carrier?

   • an individual or company, as a railroad or steamship line, engaged in transporting passengers or goods for profit. common carrier. 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.

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   What makes a person a carrier?

   • In medicine, a person is a carrier if they test positive for a pathogen or a genetic defect without showing any symptoms. This person can unwittingly spread the illness to others without ever knowing he or she is the source. If your job involves carrying things or people, you work as a carrier.

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   What is a common carrier?

   • common carrier. 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. aircraft carrier.

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   What is a carrier in physics?

   • 5. 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. 6. Physics A boson, especially a gauge boson, that conveys a force or mediates an interaction between subatomic particles. 7. Electronics a. A carrier wave. b.

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   Definitions of carrier. noun. a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages. synonyms: common carrier. see more. noun. someone whose employment involves carrying something. “the bonds were transmitted by carrier ” synonyms: bearer, toter. see more. noun. a man who delivers the mail.

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