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carrier: a) (silviculture) any material, e.g. sawdust, that is intimately mixed with seed etc. to protect it in transit; b) (pest control) any substance, solid or liquid, that, when added to a chemical compound, facilitates its storage, carriage or application, by increasing the bulk
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

carrier: an organisation whose function is to provide telecommunications service. (1); This survey`s term for a company that carries signals from place to place for a fee. It can be either an old PTT or a newly licensed company
Category: News-systems and communications

carrier: a wave having at least one characteristic that may be varied from a known reference value by modulation; that wave which is intended to be modulated
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

carrier: an oscillation or wave,usually periodic,some characteristic of which is intended to be constrained by modulation to follow the values of a signal or of another oscillation
Category: News-systems and communications

carrier: the high-frequency current or voltage generated in a radio transmitter,and varied in amplitude or frequency by the signal to be transmitted
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

carrier: supporting material for sheet,tape,etc
Category: The chemical industry

carrier: an adjuvant,water oil,etc.,added to the spray solution,which extends the active ingredients so that they cover the plant surface evenly
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

carrier: A positively driven,smooth metal roller set between the major drafting roller on some worsted drawing boxes and spinning frames to control the fibres during drafting.
Category: Various industries and crafts

carrier: A product added to a dyebath to promote the dyeing of hydrophobic synthetic fibres and characterized by affinity for,and ability to swell,the fibre.
Category: Various industries and crafts

carrier: any organism harbouring a parasite while not showing overt symptoms of the disease
Category: Botany and zoology

carrier: in a modulated wave, the carrier frequency spectral component; that part of the modulated wave that corresponds in a specified manner to the unmodulated wave, having, for example, the carrier-frequency spectral components
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

carrier: Contracting party of the contract of carriage who undertakes to transport goods against consideration.
Category: Law

carrier: a person of either gender who has inherited an allele from one parent which, can produce in the progeny an autosomal recessive disease (if inherited from both parents)
Category: Botany and zoology

carrier: a female who possesses an allele on one of her X chromosomes which results in disease in males
Category: Botany and zoology

chip-carrier: this is an intermediate package called a leadless package or chip-carrier(which looks like a small flat-pack with the leads removed)
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

floating-carrier: a system of amplitude modulation in which the carrier level is varied in proportion to the short-term mean amplitude of the modulating signal so that the modulation factor is approximately constant
Category: News-systems and communications

intercarrier: a technique used in television receivers whereby the difference frequency obtained by non-linear combination of the sound carrier and vision carriers is used as the intermediate frequency in the part of the receiver which processes the sound signal
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

intercarrier: an alternate system of handling the sound is to use a common i-f channel for both sound and picture components.Such a technique as the intercarrier sound system does not depend upon a highly stable local oscillator for satisfactory sound reception but does depend upon the maintenance of a very close tolerance on the 4.5-Mc spacing between picture and sound carrier at the transmitter
Category: News-systems and communications

intercarrier: system in a communication receiver which holds down volume until a signal is received
Category: News-systems and communications

microcarrier: a small, beaded material used as a support for the culture of anchorage-dependent animal cell lines. The beads are derived from silica, glass, dextran or similar materials
Category: Medicine

quiescent-carrier: a system of modulation in which the carrier is radiated only when modulation is occurring
Category: News-systems and communications

sub-carrier: a carrier which is applied as a modulating wave to modulate another carrier
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

subcarrier: subsidiary modulated carrier which in turns modulates primary radio frequency
Category: News-systems and communications

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