A minority-majority notation is introduced which is supplemental and complementary to the hole-electron notation used in the mathematics of semiconductor theory. Together, the two notations provide the flexibility of expression necessary to explain more clearly and appropriately the mechanisms of charge-carrier behavior in semiconductors. It is explained that equations formulated with the minority-majority symbology are the general forms, and thus the necessity of committing general analyses to the separate cases of eitherN- orP-type transport media is obviated.