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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