MetaGlossary.com: Trigger

Keywords: Happen, Siren, Invoked, Something, Trips

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a device that activates or releases or causes something to happen

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a list of conditions that has to be satisfied in order for something to happen

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a stored procedure that is invoked when something happens

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This is what happens when the alarm "goes off" or "trips." The triggered sequence of your system consists of 30 seconds of siren sounding and parking light flashing.

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a special brush entity that makes other entities or effects start to happen, or stop happening.

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