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 and also can occur when proxy cards are not tradable
• Proxy (climate), a measured variable used to infer the value of a variable of interest in climate research
• Proxy fight, attempting to influence how company shareholders use their proxy votes
• Proxy marriage, a 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 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 bypass, a website to get past websites which are blocked by an administrator
• Proxy (statistics), a measured variable used to infer the value of a variable of interest
• Proxy voting, a vote cast on behalf of an absent person, which can be:
  • one way of casting an absentee ballot in some elections (see Absentee ballot#Proxy voting)
  • a way for parliamentarians to vote on a measure even if not present.
• Proxy war, a war where two powers use third parties as a substitute for fighting each other directly

Proxy may also refer to:

• Proxy (Ergo Proxy), a mysterious humanoid lifeform in the anime Ergo Proxy
• "The Proxy" (song), by RJD2, on his 2003 album Deadringer
• Proximity mine, gaming slang

See also

• Proxy statement, an announcement of and an invitation to a U.S. stockholders' meeting
• Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy
• Proxi, a proprietary freeware computer application for Mac OS X by Griffin Technology

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