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)
“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)
“The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that the most peaceful citizen is he who goes about heavily armed. The experience of every-day life fully proves that the armed individual is invariably anxious to try his strength. The same is historically true of governments. Really peaceful countries do not waste life and energy in war preparations, with the result that peace is maintained.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)