- Look up
Carrier or
carrier in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Carrier may
refer to:
Carrier (album), a 2013
album by The
Dodos Carrier (board game),...
- An
aircraft carrier is a
warship that
serves as a
seagoing airbase,
equipped with a full-length
flight deck and
hangar facilities for supporting, arming...
-
Carrier Global Corporation is an
American multinational heating, ventilation, and air
conditioning (HVAC), refrigeration, and fire and
security equipment...
- An
interexchange carrier (IXC), in U.S.
legal and
regulatory terminology, is a type of
telecommunications company,
commonly called a long-distance telephone...
- In telecommunications, a "
carrier grade" or "
carrier class"
refers to a system, or a
hardware or
software component that is
extremely reliable, well tested...
- A bulk
carrier or
bulker is a
merchant ship
specially designed to
transport unpackaged bulk cargo—such as grain, coal, ore,
steel coils, and cement—in...
- In the
context of multi-leg flights, the
validating carrier (a.k.a.
issuing carrier) is the
airline that
validates or
issues tickets, and the one that...
- A flag
carrier is a
transport company, such as an
airline or
shipping company, that,
being locally registered in a
given sovereign state,
enjoys preferential...
- In
quantum field theory, a
force carrier is a type of
particle that
gives rise to
forces between other particles. They
serve as the
quanta of a particular...
- A
fleet carrier is an
aircraft carrier designed to
operate with the main
fleet of a nation's navy. The term was
developed during World War II, to distinguish...
