Messenger

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A messenger is a person employed in business to convey messages, official dispatches, telegrams, letters, or parcels, and go on special errands as part of their duties. In the government and military, a messenger is an official courier.

Messenger may also refer to:

[edit] Computers

  • The Messenger service, a network-based system notification service included in later versions of Microsoft Windows

[edit] Biology and chemistry

  • Chemical messenger or Hormone, a molecule used for cellular signalling
  • Messenger RNA (mRNA), RNA that carries information from DNA to the ribosome sites of protein synthesis in a cell

[edit] Media

[edit] The Arts

[edit] Other

  • MESSENGER, a NASA probe to Mercury launched in 2004
  • Messenger, a bicyclist who transports packages through cities
  • Messenger (horse), an English thoroughbred horse that was foaled in 1780, and who was the originating sire of modern-day standardbred horses
  • Miles Messenger, a British 1940s liaison aircraft
  • Muhammad, known as The Messenger in Islam
  • Messenger, a tool attached to a capstan used to raise the anchor cables on 17th - 19th century sailing ships