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発音

• IPA: /kənˈtɛnʃən/
• ハイフネーション: con‧ten‧tion

名詞

contention (countable and uncountable, plural contentions)

1. Argument, contest, debate, strife, struggle.
2. A point maintained in an argument, or a line of argument taken in its support; the subject matter of discussion of strife; a position taken or contended for.

   It is my contention that state lotteries are taxes on stupid people.

3. (computing, telecommunications) Competition by parts of a system or its users for a limited resource.

同意語

• gainstrife, gainstriving, wrangling

下位語

• (computing) resource contention

派生語

関連する語

参照

• contention on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “contention”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “contention”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.