Trigger

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Trigger may refer to:

Notable animals and people

Mononym
  • Trigger (horse), owned by cowboy star Roy Rogers
Nickname
  • Trigger Alpert (1916–2013), American jazz bassist
  • "Trigger Mike" Coppola (1900–1966), American gangster
Surname
  • Bruce Trigger (1937–2006), Canadian archaeologist
  • Damon Trigger (born 1972), New Zealand born former English cricketer
  • Hannah Trigger (born 1987), Australian snowboarder
  • Ian Trigger (1938–2010), British actor

Technology

  • Trigger (firearms), a mechanism that actuates the firing of firearms
  • Database trigger, 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
  • Flip-flop (electronics), called a trigger circuit by IBM
  • Image trigger, a device used in high speed cameras
  • Schmitt trigger, 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)"
  • Trigger, the main player character in Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown
  • Trigger, the version of Popeye in the film The Story of Temple Drake (1933), a film adaptation of the William Faulkner novel Sanctuary

Film and television

  • Trigger (2010 film), a Canadian film
  • Trigger, Jr. (1950), a 1950 American film starring Roy Rogers
  • "Triggers" (Supergirl), an episode of Supergirl
  • Ultraman Trigger, a 2021 Japanese tokusatsu television series
  • Trigger (2022 film), an Indoan Tamil-language action film

Literature

  • The Trigger, 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

  • The Trigger (band), a Serbian hard rock/heavy metal band

Albums and EPs

  • Trigger (EP), a 2003 EP by In Flames
  • Trigger (album), a 2010 album by Porno Graffitti
  • Trigger, an album by Jacob Quistgaard
  • Trigger, an album by Soulside
  • Trigger, an album by The Law

Instruments

  • Trigger (drums), a transducer that allows a drum to control an electronic device
  • Trigger (guitar), 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
  • Trigger pad, 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
  • "Trigger", by Converge from The Dusk in Us
  • "Trigger", by In Flames from Reroute to Remain and its eponymous EP
  • "Triggers", by Royal Blood from Back to the Water Below

Ships

  • USS Trigger (SS-237), a submarine (laid down 1941, sunk 1945)
  • USS Trigger (SS-564), a submarine (laid down 1949, decommissioned 1973)

Science

  • Trigger (particle physics), 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
  • Environmental trigger, a factor caused (or aided) by the environment
  • ATLAS trigger system, in the ATLAS experiment

Biology

Other uses

  • Studio Trigger, a Japanese animation studio founded by Hiroyuki Imaishi
  • Trigger, a verb conjugation specifying the subject's role in languages with Austronesian alignment
  • Casus belli, an event triggering a war
  • Trauma trigger, an event causing traumatic memories or feelings to resurface
  • Trigger (game controller), a button on some game controllers

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Trigger
  • All pages with titles containing Trigger
  • Triggered (disambiguation)
  • Trigger warning (disambiguation)
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