carrier

A carrier (Late Middle High German : treger, Middle High German: trager, Old High German: tragari ) is:

in building design a load-bearing, horizontal component, see girders (statics)
- also referred to as a binder , depending on the context
- a special carrier is the truss
In analog photography and other reproduction techniques, the material on which the light-sensitive layers are applied, see carrier (photo)
in printing technology a protective and transport layer for multilayer materials, see carrier layer (print)
a warship that aircraft can take off and land on, the aircraft carrier

in physics a substance that is traversed by waves, see medium of propagation
in communications engineering or computer science, a periodically constant signal onto which a useful signal is modulated, see carrier (communications engineering )

in mathematics the non-zero set of a function, see carrier (mathematics)

in measure theory the complement of the largest open zero set, see carrier (measure theory)

a corporation under public law that sets up a savings bank, see carrier (Sparkasse)
Local authorities that exercise supervision, technical supervision or majority stake in the capital through other legal forms, see institutions (public law)
an institution that provides staff and material resources for social services, see independent sponsors
an authority or legal entity under public law that provides social benefits, see service providers (social law)
an organization in the public administration that provides personnel and material resources, the administrative authority
in jurisprudence the holder of subjective rights, see legal subject

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