Contention

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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.

See also

• Oversubscription

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