What is "triggering"

Usage examples of "triggering".

What makes narcotics so pernicious is their ability to short-circuit the process by triggering the reward mechanism directly, without anything beneficial having to be done at all.

Doktor is able to prevent the oxyradicals and peroxide from increasing in his own system and triggering the aging process.

Moreover, it encouraged Iraqis to feed themselves by turning to agriculture, triggering a large-scale flow of urbanites back out to the countryside.

He was mystified when Guer­rero merely kicked him in the head instead of triggering the automatic.

A potent amino soup, full of recombinant endocrine secretions and hormones, fed every cell in Davies' small form, triggering in seconds DNA- programmed developments which should have taken months to complete.

Abalamahalamatandra, who had been not a survivor of some ancient race but instead a biomechanical key for triggering a terrible device.

There must be a systematic way to make curricular changes without necessarily triggering bloody intramural conflict each time.

When it was all done but for lighting the fires and triggering the circle of power with my blood, I sat upon the altar stone, opened my being to the cosmos, and prayed.

Someone junior enough to avoid triggering any automatic rejection of an official aide, but with sufficient personal background knowledge and experience to serve that function, anyway.

Photons would bounce back and forth between the parallel mirrors on the ends of the laser, triggering all of the excited atoms in the rod to release their energy into the laser beam.

A storm of engineered hormones rages through the pod nutrients, triggering the burst of cell development that will bring each clone to late adolescence in a matter of months.

The symbols are simply a coding system for triggering what a lifetime of living has written into our nervous systems.

On some of the displays she could see command language for directing and triggering that generator.

The only incident so far had a family group killing themselves by defeating a triple concertina wire fence, and detouring around a warning sign, and then triggering an anti-personnel mine when one of the children kicked it .

Now the Guajiros suffered in a cross fire, Lyons triggering bursts into every soldier he saw, the ambushers firing at both helicopters.