The phrase "an ability to trigger" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing someone's skill or capacity to initiate a response or action.
Example: "The software has an ability to trigger alerts when certain conditions are met."
Alternatives: "a capacity to initiate" or "a skill to activate."
Cohen's songs have an amazing ability to trigger long-forgotten memories, to revive your deeply buried emotions, and to make you feel that they are actually about you and your current situation, and that you're the only one who can fully understand them.
Unlike Ey, Ey(2a) has an impaired ability to trigger efficient ey target gene expression and to bind efficiently to DNA cognate sequences.
In innate immunity, miR-155-deficient myeloid dendritic cells have an impaired ability to trigger T cell activation after antigen presentation.
In addition, cocultures of aggressive BRC cells and promonocytes possess a greater ability to trigger in healthy epithelium characteristics of transformed cells, such as an increased proliferation, gross changes at the cytoskeletal level, and absence of lumen.
Codfish allergens have a grossly reduced ability to trigger an intestinal allergic reaction when they are digested [ 11], and incomplete gastric digestion of cod allergens represents a risk factor for allergen-induced anaphylaxis [ 12].
"Remember when we played?" I imagine you dialling her number, alone in a small, dark room, sitting on the edge of your twin bed, the only weapon left in your arsenal the firing up of a memory, the ability to trigger terror with your voice.
It is based on the premise that every earthquake has a magnitude-dependent ability to trigger aftershocks.
With that goal in mind, we focused on modeling a user's ability to trigger the switch device at the appropriate times.
While at short time scales, each earthquake has a magnitude-dependent ability to trigger further events, at longer time scales the capability to trigger other earthquakes appears to be independent by the magnitude (a2 = 0).
