- Look up
contention or
contentious in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Contention or
contentious may
refer to:
Contention (telecommunications), a media...
- 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...
- In
computer science,
resource contention is a
conflict over
access to a
shared resource such as
random access memory, disk storage,
cache memory, internal...
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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...
- In
database management systems,
block contention (or data
contention)
refers to
multiple processes or
instances competing for
access to the same index...
- Look up bone of
contention in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bone of
Contention may
refer to: The Bone of
Contention, a 2004
audio drama, a spin-off...
-
computer networking, the
contention ratio is the
ratio of the
potential maximum demand to the
actual bandwidth. The
higher the
contention ratio, the greater...
-
Repertoire of
contention refers, in
social movement theory, to the set of
various protest-related
tools and
actions available to a
movement or related...
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Competition is a
rivalry where two or more
parties strive for a
common goal
which cannot be shared:
where one's gain is the other's loss (an
example of...
- A
contention-based
protocol (CBP) is a
communications protocol for
operating wireless telecommunication equipment that
allows many
users to use the same...