carrier
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
carrier/ˈkariə(r)/
▶noun
- 1 a person or thing that carries, holds, or conveys something.
- 2 a person or company that undertakes the professional conveyance of goods or people.
- 3 a person or animal that transmits a disease-causing organism to others, especially without suffering from it themselves.
■ Genetics an individual possessing a particular gene, especially as a single copy whose effect is masked by a dominant allele, so that the associated characteristic is not displayed but may be passed to offspring.
'carrier' also found in these Oxford entries:
aircraft carrier
- amplitude modulation
- APC
- Aquarius
- arrester
- bail
- bailiff
- bulk carrier
- capital ship
- carrier bag
- carrier pigeon
- carrier wave
- charge carrier
- common carrier
- consign
- demodulate
- DNA
- doryphore
- down
- electron
- end run
- flat-top
- flight deck
- gas chromatography
- gas–liquid chromatography
- hapten
- hole
- insurance carrier
- letter carrier
- people carrier
- personnel carrier
- sideband
- touch football
- troop carrier
- vector
