Contention or contentious may refer to:
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Resource contention, in computer science, a conflict over access to a shared resource
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Contention (telecommunications), a media access method to share a broadcast medium
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Bus contention, an undesirable state in computer design
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Contention City, Arizona, U.S., a ghost town
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Contention, Oregon
Twickenham is an unincorporated community in Wheeler County, in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is located along the John Day River between Service Creek and Mitchell, Oregon. A bridge at Twickenham carries North Twickenham Road over the river.
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, U.S., later known as Twickenham
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FV4401 Contentious
FV 4401 ''Contentious'' was a prototype British air-portable tank destroyer of the early 1960s. At least one prototype was constructed and tested, although no production vehicles were built or saw service.
Project ''Prodigal''
The vehicle w ...
, a prototype British tank destroyer
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Argument
An argument is a statement or group of statements called premises intended to determine the degree of truth or acceptability of another statement called conclusion. Arguments can be studied from three main perspectives: the logical, the dialectic ...
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Controversy
Controversy is a state of prolonged public dispute or debate, usually concerning a matter of conflicting opinion or point of view. The word was coined from the Latin ''controversia'', as a composite of ''controversus'' – "turned in an opposite d ...
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Contention ratio, in computer networking
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Contentious jurisdiction
In English ecclesiastical law, contentious jurisdiction (Latin: ''forum contentiosum'') is jurisdiction over matters in controversy between parties, in contradistinction to ''voluntary'' jurisdiction, or that exercised upon matters not opposed or c ...
, in English ecclesiastical law
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Contentious politics
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