Proxy

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Proxy may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

Fictional entities

• Proxy, a mysterious humanoid lifeform in the anime Ergo Proxy
• PROXY, a holodroid featured in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
• Proxy, the codename of Wendy Harris, a fictional character in the Batgirl comic book series
• "Proxy", the name of a fictional character in the 2012 horror film Smiley
• "Proxy", a term, specifically (but not limited to) in Slender: The Arrival, for a person who is influenced or controlled by the Slender Man

Music

• Proxies (band), British electronic rock band formed in 2010
• "Proxy" (song), a 2014 song by Martin Garrix
• "The Proxy", a song by RJD2 on his 2002 album Deadringer

Other uses in arts, entertainment and media

• Proxy (film), a 2013 horror film directed by Zack Parker
• Proxies (film), a 1921 silent drama film directed by George D. Baker
• The Proxy, a drama web series starring Stuart Ashen
• 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 tradeable
• Proxy (novel), a 2013 young adult novel by Alex London

Computing and technology

• ProxyAddress, a service providing postal addresses for homeless people
• Proxy pattern, a software design pattern in computer programming, also known as a proxy class
• Proxy server, a computer network service that allows clients to make indirect network connections to other network services

Other uses

• Proxy or agent (law), a substitute authorized to act for another entity or a document which authorizes the agent so to act
• Proxy (climate), a measured variable used to infer the value of a variable of interest in climate research
• Proxy (statistics), a measured variable used to infer the value of a variable of interest
• Healthcare proxy, a document used to specify an agent to make medical decisions for a patient in case they are incapacitated
• Proxy bullying (or vicarious bullying), bullying committed on behalf of somebody else
• Proxy fight, attempting to influence how company shareholders use their proxy votes
• Proxy marriage, common amongst European monarchs, where one party is not present in person to their marriage to the other
• Proxy murder, a murder committed on behalf of somebody else
• Proxy statement, information published related to a U.S. stockholders' meeting
• Proxy voting, a vote cast on behalf of an absent person
• Proxy war, a war where two powers use third parties as a substitute for fighting each other directly
• Torture by proxy, torturing someone on somebody else's behalf

See also

• Münchausen syndrome by proxy
• Proxi, a computer application
• Vicarious (disambiguation)

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This page was last edited on 10 November 2023, at 19:49