Proxy
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Proxy may refer to something which acts on behalf of something else as in:
- Proxy card, a substitute card used in trading card games when a player does not own the substituted card.
- Proxy (climate), a measured variable used to infer the value of a variable of interest in climate research.
- Proxy fight, an event that may occur when opposition develops to a corporation management among its stockholders.
- Proxy marriage, a practice formerly common amongst European monarchs, where one party is not present in person to their marriage to the other.
- Proxy murder, a murder which the murderer commits at the behest of another.
- Proxy occupation, a military occupation where the occupying power directs a "co-belligerent" (i.e. ally) to undertake the occupation of a particular area, as a substitute for the occupying power handling the occupation of that area directly.
- Proxy pattern, a software design pattern in computer programming.
- Proxy server, a computer network service that allows clients to make indirect network connections to other network services.
- Proxy statement, an announcement of and an invitation to a U.S. stockholders' meeting
- Proxy (statistics), a measured variable used to infer the value of a variable of interest
- Proxy voting, which can be either:
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- one way of casting an absentee ballot in some elections, or
- a system which allows a politician's party to cast votes on his or her behalf when he or she is absent from parliament.
- Proxy war, a war where two powers use third parties as a substitute for fighting each other directly.
It can also refer to any of the following:
- "Proxy", an advanced humanoid character in the anime Ergo Proxy
- "The Proxy," a song by RJD2 from his 2003 album Deadringer