Carrier-free
(of a radioactive isotope) capable of functioning as a tracer without the use of a carrier.
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- Carrier-pigeon
one of a breed of domestic pigeons having a large wattle around the base of the beak. a homing pigeon trained to carry messages. Historical Examples I want to hear all of it, all that you had no room to tell me in your carrier-pigeon messages. The Saracen: The Holy War Robert Shea It is […]
- Carrier scanner
carrier scanner security (Or “wardialer”) A program which uses a modem to dial a series of phone numbers (say, from 770-0000 to 770-9999), and keeps a log of what phone numbers answer with a modem carrier. The results of such a search were generally used by people looking to engage in random mischief in random […]
- Carrier screening
carrier screening carrier screening n. Indiscriminate examination of members of a population to detect heterozygotes for serious disorders and to discourage sexual union and marriage with other carriers. Prenatal diagnosis is used for a married couple who are both carriers.
- Carrier signal
carrier signal communications A continuous signal of a single frequency capable of being modulated by a second, data-carrying signal. In radio communication, the two common kinds of modulation are amplitude modulation and frequency modulation. (1995-03-01)
- Carriere
Eugène [œ-zhen] /œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), 1849–1906, French painter and lithographer. Historical Examples All the stragglers who had lagged behind arrived, one after another, excepting the poor Canadian voyageur, carriere. Astoria Washington Irving It would be quite possible, as carriere suggests, to distinguish a third type of glands—the mixed type. The Peaches of New York U. […]