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Noun: transporter  tran(t)s'por-tu(r)
  1. A long truck for carrying motor vehicles
    - car transporter
     
  2. A crane for moving material with dispatch as in loading and unloading ships
     
  3. (factory) a moving belt that transports objects (as in a factory)
    - conveyer belt, conveyor belt, conveyer, conveyor

Derived forms: transporters

Type of: belt, crane, lorry [Brit], motortruck [N. Amer], truck

Part of: assembly line, line, production line

Encyclopedia: Transporter, rector, launcher, and radar