Contention
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Contention may refer to:
- Contention (telecommunications), a condition where two or more stations attempt to transmit at the same time over a shared channel.
- Resource contention, competition by users of a system for the facility at the same time
- Contention ratio, competition that applies specifically to the number of people connected to an ISP who share a set amount of bandwidth
- Lock (computer science)#Granularity, in computer science a situation where keeping a mutual exclusion lock reduces the throughput by hindering concurrency of a program
- Main contention, the main point being argued for in informal logic
- Bus contention
- Contention, Arizona, a ghost town in Cochise County in southeast Arizona.