proxy

Meanings

Adjective

• Used as a proxy or acting as a proxy.

Noun

• An agent or substitute authorized to act for another person.
• The authority to act for another, especially when written.
• The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts
• A measurement of one physical quantity that is used as an indicator of the value of another
• An interface for a service, especially for one that is remote, resource-intensive, or otherwise difficult to use directly.
• A proximity mine; a mine that explodes when something approaches within a certain distance.

Verb

• To serve as a proxy for.
• To function as a server for a client device, but pass on the requests to another server for service.

Related

Similar words

• deputy
• substitute
• representative
• proxy mine

Narrower meaning words

• caching proxy
• complexity-hiding proxy
• copy-on-write proxy
• dynamic proxy
• firewall proxy
• forward proxy
• network proxy
• protection proxy
• remote proxy
• reverse proxy
• smart-reference proxy
• surrogate proxy
• synchronisation proxy
• virtual proxy
• open proxy
• closed proxy

Origin

• Contraction of Anglo-Norman procuracie, from Medieval Latin procuratia, from Latin prōcūrātiō, from Latin prōcūrō ("I manage, administer") (English procure).
• proximity + -y.