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triggered

  • adjective

Having a trigger that reacts to some specific condition.

Example

“a motion-triggered alarm”

Other meanings

  1. Angered; agitated.

Related words

  • phototriggered
  • pretriggered
  • untriggered
  • edge-triggered
  • level-triggered

Example sentences

  • “What triggered the landslide?”

    Tatoeba · ddnktr · CC0

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “triggered” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.