Trigger (horse)
Trigger (July 4, 1934 – July 3, 1965) was a palomino horse made famous in American Western films with his owner and rider, cowboy star Roy Rogers.
Pedigree
The original Trigger, named Golden Cloud, was born in San Diego, California. Though o ...
, owned by cowboy star Roy Rogers
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Trigger Alpert
Herman "Trigger" Alpert (September 3, 1916 – December 21, 2013) was an American jazz bassist from Indianapolis, Indiana.
Music career
A native of Indianapolis, Alpert attended Indiana University, where he studied music. Soon after, he played ...
(1916–2013), American jazz bassist
* "Trigger Mike" Coppola (1900–1966), American gangster
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Bruce Trigger
Bruce Graham Trigger (June 18, 1937 – December 1, 2006) was a Canadian archaeologist, anthropologist, and ethnohistorian. He was appointed the James McGill Professor at McGill University in 2001.
Life
Born in Preston, Ontario (now part of Cam ...
(1937–2006), Canadian archaeologist
* Damon Trigger (born 1972), New Zealand born former English cricketer
* Hannah Trigger (born 1987), Australian snowboarder
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Ian Trigger
Ian Trigger (30 September 1938 – 6 January 2010) was a British actor of stage, film and television who had a successful career in the United States. A diminutive actor, Trigger's long career saw him working in the West End, on Broadway and ...
(1938–2010), British actor
Technology
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Trigger (firearms)
A trigger is a mechanism that actuates the function of a ranged weapon such as a firearm, airgun, crossbow, or speargun. The word may also be used to describe a switch that initiates the operation of other non-shooting devices such as a trap, a ...
, a mechanism that actuates the firing of firearms
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Database trigger A database trigger is procedural code that is automatically executed in response to certain events on a particular table or view in a database. The trigger is mostly used for maintaining the integrity of the information on the database. For example ...
, procedural code that is automatically executed in response to certain events
* Dead man's trigger, a safety device that activates safeguards if the operator is incapacitated
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Flip-flop (electronics)
In electronics, a flip-flop or latch is a circuit that has two stable states and can be used to store state information – a bistable multivibrator. The circuit can be made to change state by signals applied to one or more control inputs and ...
, called a trigger circuit by IBM
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Image trigger An image trigger initiates the capture of single or multiple frames of a digital camera by analysing the signals of its sensor.
For capturing and analysing of fast moving objects (e.g. as in quality control of production lines) modern high speed ...
, a device used in high speed cameras
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Schmitt trigger
In electronics, a Schmitt trigger is a comparator circuit with hysteresis implemented by applying positive feedback to the noninverting input of a comparator or differential amplifier. It is an active circuit which converts an analog input si ...
, an electronic circuit
Art, entertainment, and media
Fictional entities
* Trigger (''Only Fools and Horses''), a BBC sitcom character played by Roger Lloyd-Pack
* Trigger Argee, a fictional character in a series of science fiction short stories by James H. Schmitz
* Devil Trigger, a transformation ability found in the ''Devil May Cry'' series
* Trigger, a fictional horse in "
Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West)
"Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West)" is an innuendo-laden comedy or novelty song, written and performed by the English comedian Benny Hill. The song was first performed on television in 1970, and released as a successful recording, toppin ...
Popeye
Popeye the Sailor Man is a fictional cartoon character created by E. C. Segar, Elzie Crisler Segar.Ultraman Trigger'', a 2021 Japanese tokusatsu series
The Trigger
''The Trigger'' is a 1999 science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke and Michael P. Kube-McDowell
Michael Paul Kube-McDowell (born August 29, 1954), also known as Michael McDowell or Michael P. McDowell, is an American science fiction and ...
'', a 1999 science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke and Michael P. Kube-McDowell
* ''Triggers'' (novel), a 2012 science fiction novel by Robert J. Sawyer
Music
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The Trigger (band)
The Trigger is a Serbian hard rock/ heavy metal band from Belgrade.
History
The band was formed in 2005 by guitarist and songwriter Dušan Svilokos Đurić, female vocalist Milena Branković, and bass guitarist Petar "Pera" Popović. Keyboardist ...
Jacob Quistgaard
Jacob Quistgaard (known as Quist) is a Danish guitarist and producer based in Los Angeles. Quist is best known as the lead guitarist with British singer and Roxy music frontman Bryan Ferry. He has been touring with Ferry since early 2014 and fea ...
* ''Trigger'', an album by
Soulside
Soulside, also spelled Soul Side, was an American post-hardcore band from the greater Washington, D.C. area. The original name of the band was Lunchmeat which was formed by high school students Bobby Sullivan, Chris Thomson, Scott McCloud and A ...
Trigger (drums)
In drumming, a trigger is an electronic transducer that can be attached to a drum, cymbal or other instrument to enable it to control an electronic drum unit or similar device.
Specialised triggers are produced for specific instruments. A snare ...
, a transducer that allows a drum to control an electronic device
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Trigger (guitar)
Trigger is the Martin N-20 nylon-string classical acoustic guitar used by country music singer-songwriter Willie Nelson. Early in his career, Nelson tested several guitars by different companies. After his Baldwin guitar was damaged in 1969, he ...
, the Martin N-20 guitar played by Willie Nelson
* Trigger (trombone), a switch that enables a trombonist to switch from one set of tubing to another
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Trigger pad
A trigger pad is an electronic sensor on a drum that produces a certain sound assigned from a sound module once the head has been struck. This device allows drummers to play at a constant dynamic regardless of the physical force used.
Triggers a ...
, a device used in electronic percussion
Songs
* "Trigger" (song), a 2019 song by Major Lazer and Khalid
* "Trigger", by Anne-Marie from ''
Speak Your Mind
''Speak Your Mind'' is the debut studio album by English singer Anne-Marie, released on 27 April 2018 by Major Tom's and Asylum Records. Anne-Marie announced the album on 21 February 2018 and it was made available for pre-order two days late ...
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* "Trigger", by Converge from ''
The Dusk in Us
''The Dusk in Us'' is the ninth studio album by American metalcore band Converge. It was released on November 3, 2017, via Epitaph Records and Deathwish Inc, and is the band's first studio album in five years since 2012's ''All We Love We Leave ...
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* "Trigger", by In Flames from ''
Reroute to Remain
''Reroute to Remain'' (subtitled: ''Fourteen Songs of Conscious Insanity'', and on reissue: ''Fourteen Songs of Conscious Madness'') is the sixth studio album by Swedish heavy metal band In Flames, released in September 2002.
The album saw a ma ...
Trigger (particle physics) In particle physics, a trigger is a system that uses criteria to rapidly decide which events in a particle detector
In experimental and applied particle physics, nuclear physics, and nuclear engineering, a particle detector, also known as a rad ...
, hardware or software based device for the (online-)selection of specific event classes from large datasets
* Trigger, one event that makes a slope failure in landslides, in the
causes of landslides
There have been known various classifications of landslides. Broad definitions include forms of mass movement (geology), mass movement that narrower definitions exclude. For example, the ''McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology'' distin ...
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Environmental trigger
An environmental factor, ecological factor or eco factor is any factor, abiotic or biotic, that influences living organisms. Abiotic factors include ambient temperature, amount of sunlight, and pH of the water soil in which an organism lives. B ...
, a factor caused (or aided) by the environment
* ATLAS trigger system, in the
ATLAS experiment
ATLAS is the largest general-purpose particle detector experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Switzerland. The experiment is designed to take advantage ...
Spawning triggers Spawning triggers'' are environmental cues that cause marine animals to breed. Most commonly they involve sudden changes in the environment, such as changes in temperature, salinity, and/or the abundance of food. Catfish of the genus ''Corydoras'', ...
, environmental cues that cause fish to breed
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Studio Trigger
, also known as Studio Trigger, is a Japanese animation studio founded by former Gainax employees Hiroyuki Imaishi and Masahiko Ōtsuka in 2011. It has produced anime works including '' Kill la Kill'' (2013), ''Little Witch Academia'' (short fi ...
, a Japanese animation studio founded by Hiroyuki Imaishi
* Trigger, a verb conjugation specifying the subject's role in languages with
Austronesian alignment
Symmetrical voice, also known as Austronesian alignment, the Philippine-type voice system or the Austronesian focus system, is a typologically unusual kind of morphosyntactic alignment in which "one argument can be marked as having a special relat ...
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Casus belli
A (; ) is an act or an event that either provokes or is used to justify a war. A ''casus belli'' involves direct offenses or threats against the nation declaring the war, whereas a ' involves offenses or threats against its ally—usually one b ...
'', an event triggering a war
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Trauma trigger
A trauma trigger is a psychological stimulus that prompts involuntary recall of a previous traumatic experience. The stimulus itself need not be frightening or traumatic and may be only indirectly or superficially reminiscent of an earlier traum ...
, an event causing traumatic memories or feelings to resurface
* Trigger (game controller), a button on some game controllers