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contentionA condition that arises when two devices attempt to use a single resource at the same time. See contention resolution and CSMA/CD. contention [kən′ten·chən] (communications) A method of operating a multiterminal communication channel in which any station may transmit if the channel is free; if the channel is in use, the queue of contention requests may be maintained in predetermined sequence. (computer science) The condition arising when two or more units attempt to transmit over a time-division-multiplex channel at the same time. Competition for the same computer resources by two or more devices or programs, such as an attempt by several programs to use the same disk drive simultaneously, or by several users in a multiaccess system to use the system's resources. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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He rightly places these tensions in the context of virtually 14 centuries of contestation. After a century of near limitless corporate autonomy, the exposure of the estate's practices after 1997 and contestation over the replacement of a once untouchable board of trustees by different community action groups, including a teacher's union, the state attorney general, and ultimately the IRS revealed incredible tensions within native Hawaiian communities previously kept out of the public eye. She reads contemporary narratives of slavery both as counterhistories to the official history of slavery imposed by colonial and neocolonial powers and as complications and contestations of the themes of resistance and progress that dominate earlier narratives. |
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