trigger mechanism
Americannoun
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The court also heard Love's DNA was found on a drill which was believed to be the trigger mechanism for the device.
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
“There was no trigger mechanism, the guy was obviously a nut. Bombs have triggering mechanisms, hoaxes have pipes without triggering mechanisms.”
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 6, 2018
It’s a trigger mechanism: as soon as he says it, the chants begin.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 1, 2018
“I could hear a helicopter in my sleep and wake up screaming. That was kind of a trigger mechanism that took me back there every time.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2016
A later innovation in the modern breech-loader is the single trigger mechanism introduced by some of the leading English gun-makers, by which both barrels can be fired in succession by a single trigger.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
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