Carrier
In general, a carrier is a system or process with a specific property or is attributed of something
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(in physical or in abstract sense).
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More precisely, TOGA meta-theory, 1993, Adam M. Gadomski, if a is a property of an object A then A is a carrier of a.
Related Topics:
Adam M. Gadomski - Property - Object
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The specificity of a results from the context, therefore
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carrier has several very different meanings, for example:
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- an individual or organization engaged in transporting passengers or goods for hire.
- in semiconductor physics, a charge carrier, either a free electron or an electron hole.
- in telecommunication, a carrier wave
- in biology, an asymptomatic carrier or a carrier-protein
- the Dakelh, an indigenous First Nations people in British Columbia, Canada, who were formerly referred to as the Carrier
- the Carrier language, the Athabaskan language of the Dakelh people
- a common carrier, a transport business (shipping or telecom)
- an aircraft carrier
- Willis Carrier, the inventor of air-conditioning
- Carrier, the company which he founded
- Carrier, a video game for the Sega Dreamcast
- Carrier a South Pacific World War II game from Avalon Hill
- the town of Carrier, Oklahoma
- a unit in the computer game StarCraft, the Protoss Carrier.
- the enormous living interdimensional spaceship home to the Authority
- a Lathe carrier is a device that transfers motion to a workpiece.
A carrier relation is between a system, process and function, and it is transitive.
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According to the computational TOGA meta-theory, Gadomski,1993, a process is the carrier of a function, and a system is a carrier of a process. In this sense, the property relation is the inverse to carrier relation.
Related Topics:
TOGA meta-theory, Gadomski,1993 - Function
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