Contention

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:

    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)

    Great causes are never tried on their merits; but the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partizans, and the contention is ever hottest on minor matters.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.
    Joyce Appleby (b. 1929)