Contention or contentious may refer to: *

Contention (telecommunications) In statistical time division multiplexing, contention is a media access method that is used to share a broadcast medium. In contention, any computer in the network can transmit data at any time (first come-first served). This system breaks down ...

, a media access method to share a broadcast medium * Contention, Oregon, U.S., later known as Twickenham *

Contention City, Arizona Contention City or Contention is a ghost mining town in Cochise County in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Arizona. It was occupied from the early 1880s through the late 1880s in what was then known as the Arizona Territory. Only a few ...

, U.S., a ghost town *

Bus contention Bus contention is an undesirable state in computer design where more than one device on a bus attempts to place values on it at the same time. Bus contention is the kind of telecommunication contention that occurs when all communicating de ...

, an undesirable state in computer design * FV4401 ''Contentious'', a prototype British tank destroyer *

Resource contention In computer science, resource contention is a conflict over access to a shared resource such as random access memory, disk storage, cache memory, internal buses or external network devices. A resource experiencing ongoing contention can be descr ...

, in computer science, a conflict over access to a shared resource

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