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Proxy

The word "proxy" can mean more than one thing:

a person authorized to act for another person, or upon request by another person (see eg.: Proxy murder)
a political or business proxy representative
a proxy war is a war where two powers use third parties as a substitute for fighting each other directly.
a networking server: proxy server
a design pattern called proxy pattern
a measurement used in social science surveys or other research as an approximation to a desired measure that is impossible or inconvenient to obtain
in climate research, a proxy is a measured variable used to infer the value of a variable of interest.
in collectable card games, a card (usually a cheap or common one) that is marked so as to represent another card (usually a hard-to-get or expensive one). This is illegal in most tournaments, and often disapproved of in casual play.

10-26-2009 08:16:03
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