triggering

Academic Word List, sublist 9.

About 1.60 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb present participle and gerund of trigger
2. noun The initiation of an event or process.
3. adjective That triggers or initiates.

Similar words

spark spark off trip touch off set off actuate activate initiation induction gun trigger

Often followed by

the of a event events an mechanism and off

Word family

trigger triggered triggers