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Proxmox Virtual Environment
Proxmox Virtual Environment, known as Proxmox VE, is an open-source server virtualization platform from Vienna, Austria, combining KVM virtual machines and LXC containers under a single web-based interface.
Proxy auto-config
A PAC file, or Proxy.pac, is a JavaScript function named FindProxyForURL that a web browser evaluates for each request to decide whether traffic goes direct or through a proxy server.
Proxy fight
A proxy fight is a campaign in which dissident shareholders solicit votes from other shareholders to elect their own director nominees or force a policy change at a company meeting.
Proxy list
A proxy list is a published set of proxy server addresses, written as IP:port, that clients configure so requests appear to come from the proxy.
Proxy marriage
Proxy marriage: a wedding at which one or both parties are absent and a written-authorized stand-in consents for them. Allowed in a few U.S. states (Montana double proxy) and some countries; U.S. immigration requires consummation.
Proxy pattern
The proxy pattern, or proxy design pattern, is a structural design pattern in which a proxy object controls access to another object with the same interface.
Proxy re-encryption
Proxy re-encryption is a public-key encryption scheme in which a semi-trusted proxy, using a re-encryption key, retargets ciphertexts to new recipients without learning the plaintext.
Proxy server
A proxy server, also called an Internet proxy, is an intermediary between a client and a destination server that forwards, modifies, blocks, or answers requests itself.
Proxy voting
Proxy voting lets shareholders vote on directors and corporate matters without attending meetings. Key facts: U.S. Exchange Act Section 14(a) regulation, Rule 14a-8 shareholder proposals, ISS and Glass Lewis advisory dominance, and roughly 20-point vote swings from negative ISS recommendations.
Proxy war
Proxy war: an indirect armed conflict in which a sponsor entrusts another party, the proxy, to fight on its behalf, as in Cold War Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Yemen's Saudi-Iran conflict; also called indirect intervention via delegated warfare.
Proya Cosmetics
Proya Cosmetics (珀莱雅), known as Proya, is a Hangzhou-based Chinese cosmetics group founded by Hou Juncheng that has been China's largest homegrown beauty brand by revenue since 2023.
Prozac Nation
Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, Elizabeth Wurtzel's 1994 Houghton Mifflin memoir of depression and Prozac treatment, a Gen X best seller that helped launch the 1990s memoir boom.
Prozac Nation (film)
Prozac Nation is a 2001 American-German drama directed by Erik Skjoldbjærg, starring Christina Ricci as Elizabeth Wurtzel, with Jessica Lange as her mother, adapted from Wurtzel's memoir.
Prozhektor
Prozhektor (Прожектор, "Searchlight") was a Soviet illustrated literary and satirical magazine published in Moscow from 1923 to 1935 as a supplement to the newspaper Pravda.
PRP trial
PRP trial (NCT05737173) is a completed phase 2 randomized trial at Queen Savang Vadhana Memorial Hospital, Thailand, comparing leukocyte-rich PRP, leukocyte-poor PRP, and corticosteroid injections for knee osteoarthritis, with WOMAC at 6 months as the primary outcome.
Prp8
Prp8 (PRPF8), pre-mRNA processing factor 8, is the largest and most conserved spliceosomal protein, forming the catalytic cavity of the spliceosome, crosslinking all three splicing chemistry sites, evolving from a group II intron reverse transcriptase, and linked to retinitis pigmentosa.
PRPF31
PRPF31, also known as pre-mRNA processing factor 31 or RP11, is a human gene on chromosome 19 that encodes a spliceosome component; mutations cause autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa.
PRPS1
PRPS1, X-linked gene at Xq22-q24 encoding phosphoribosylpyrophosphate synthetase 1 (PRS-I). Gain-of-function variants cause PRS-I superactivity with gout; loss-of-function variants cause DFN2 deafness, CMTX5, and Arts syndrome.
PRQL
PRQL (Pipelined Relational Query Language, "Prequel") is an open-source pipelined query language that compiles to SQL for any database. Launched January 2022 by Maximilian Roos; Rust compiler prqlc; 10.9k GitHub stars; 0.13.14 (2026).
PRRI/Permesta rebellion
The PRRI/Permesta rebellion was an insurgent movement of 1957–1961 in West Sumatra and North Sulawesi, demanding regional autonomy and fairer revenue from Sukarno's Java-centered government.
PRRT2
PRRT2, or proline-rich transmembrane protein 2, is a human gene on chromosome 16p11.2 encoding a neuron-specific protein involved in synaptic vesicle release; its variants cause infantile epilepsy and paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia.
PRS Guitars
PRS Guitars (Paul Reed Smith Guitars), American guitar maker founded 1985 in Annapolis, Maryland by Paul Reed Smith, now in Stevensville; third largest US electric guitar manufacturer, known for the 25-inch scale, patented tremolo, Custom 24, Santana endorsement, and SE, S2, Core, Private Stock lines.
PRS Oberoi
Prithvi Raj Singh Oberoi, known as Biki, was an Indian hotelier who led EIH Limited, the Oberoi Group flagship, and received the Padma Vibhushan in 2008.
PrSM
The Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) is a Lockheed Martin surface-to-surface guided missile for the US Army, replacing ATACMS with a range of up to 499 kilometers.
PRSS2
PRSS2 (HGNC:9483, alias TRY2), serine protease 2 at 7q34, encodes trypsin-2, the anionic trypsinogen, the second major human pancreatic trypsinogen; no pathogenic gain-of-function variants, protective p.G191R variant.
Prthivi Corona
Prthivi Corona is a 375 km wide corona on Venus at 10.8N 248.5E, IAU-approved in 2003 and named for the Hindu mother goddess; one of 341 named Venusian coronae.
Prucalopride
Prucalopride (Resolor, Motegrity) is a selective 5-HT4 receptor agonist taken once daily for chronic constipation when laxatives fail; EU approval 2009, US 2018, NICE-recommended for women after two laxative classes fail.
Prudence
Prudence, Greek phronēsis (φρόνησις), Latin prudentia, is the Aristotelian intellectual virtue of practical wisdom: correct deliberation about means to morally set ends, distinct from sophia, epistēmē, and technē, revived in modern virtue ethics.
Prudence A. Francis
Prudence A. Francis, known as Prue Francis, is an Australian medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer, Clinical Co-Lead of Breast Medical Oncology at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne.
Prudence Farrow
Prudence Farrow (Prudence Anne Villiers Farrow Bruns, born 1948, Los Angeles) is an American film producer, Sanskrit scholar, and Transcendental Meditation teacher, sister of Mia Farrow, whose intense meditation at Maharishi's 1968 Rishikesh ashram inspired John Lennon's song "Dear Prudence".