Contention may refer to:
- The main contention, in rhetoric and logic, the main point being argued
- Resource contention, a general concept in communications and computing, is competition by users of a system for the facility at the same time:
- Contention (telecommunications), a channel access method
- The contention ratio, in computer networking, competition that applies specifically to the number of people connected to an ISP who share a set amount of bandwidth
- Lock contention, in computer science, where a mutual exclusion lock reduces the throughput by hindering the concurrency of a program
- Bus contention, in computer design, where multiple devices on a computer bus attempt to use it at the same time
Contention may also refer to:
- Contention City, Arizona, a ghost town in Cochise County in southeast Arizona, sometimes referred to simply as Contention, Arizona.
Famous quotes containing the word contention:
“The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self- promotion.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)
“It is my contention that civil disobedients are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)
“In truth, the legitimate contention is, not of one age or school of literary art against another, but of all successive schools alike, against the stupidity which is dead to the substance, and the vulgarity which is dead to form.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)