Carrier has several very different meanings:
- in Science (physics, electronics, biology, mathematics)
- Carrier wave, a waveform suitable for modulation by an information-bearing signal
- Charge carrier, in physics a free (mobile, unbound) particle carrying an electric charge
- in mathematics, the set over which a Boolean algebra is defined is the carrier.
- Carrier-protein, a protein that facilitates the transport of another molecule
- Asymptomatic carrier, a person who is infected with an infectious disease or carries the abnormal gene of a recessive genetic disorder, but displays no symptoms
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