Proxy

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

a political or business proxy representative
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.

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