The phrase "a triggering device" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to mechanisms that activate a particular action or response, often in technical or psychological discussions.
Example: "The alarm system is equipped with a triggering device that activates when motion is detected."
Alternatives: "activation mechanism" or "initiating device".
Al that was missing was 100 pounds of uranium, explosive changes, & a triggering device.
In this interaction reasoning by similarity is typically helpful as a triggering device in the early phases of a search for ideas, whereas reasoning by rules follows suite in subsequent phases of development, refinement, and evaluation.
Normally, bombs are cheap and fuses are relatively expensive, but an atomic bomb is extremely expensive, and any failure of a triggering device is unacceptable.
FBI bomb technician Leland McEuen, who had dismantled improvised explosive devices in Iraq, recognized it as a pipe bomb with a triggering device — a remote car starter — similar to those used against U.S. forces in the Middle East.
Anyone can lay down $20 for a womp, $10 for a controller (a triggered device that accelerates and brakes the car), buy a little track time (about $5 a session) to practice, and be ready to make like A. J. Foyt on race night.
The chapter details an effort by the C.I.A. in 2000 to disrupt Iran's nuclear program by sending a former Russian scientist to give it blueprints for a nuclear triggering device with a hidden design flaw.
A chapter in the book recounted efforts by the C.I.A. in the Clinton administration to trick Iranian scientists by having a Russian defector give them blueprints for a nuclear triggering device that had been altered with an error.
A second triggering device was set up near a trash bin outside his apartment, Mr. Holmes reportedly told the police.
BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to compare a fast spin-echo sequence combined with a respiratory triggering device (R. trig. FSE) with conventional T2-weighted spin-echo (CSE) and inversion recovery (STIR) sequences for the detection of focal hepatic lesions.
These techniques require merely a standard camera that can take single exposures, plus a timed triggering device that can take the exposures at the desired intervals.
I used a remote triggering device for the air blast and fired the camera a fraction of a second afterward.
