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
That, together with the photo film which carried the Eye's message and was enclosed in the trigger mechanism of the novel projector, constituted evidence that would prove that Jack Carlson was the Eye.
From Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 by Various
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