trigger point
nounDefinition of trigger point
: a localized usually tender or painful area of the body and especially of a muscle that when stimulated gives rise to pain elsewhere in the body
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The levees are designed to handle only a portion of this flood; when a trigger point is met, the Corps is authorized to open one of the MR&T’s four floodways, sending the excess water down a different route to the Gulf of Mexico. — Boyce Upholt, Time, "The Mississippi River Is Under Control—For Now," 9 May 2019 Finally, aid groups and governments must develop a method for providing timely assistance when forecasts show that a trigger point has been reached. — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, "Is forecast-based financing the future of aid in the face of climate change?," 28 July 2019 The database allows first responders to better speak to someone with autism, know their trigger points and how to best react. — Johnny Diaz, sun-sentinel.com, "Margate police join Autism outreach program," 23 July 2019 Both scores operate more like the music in a video game, with a complex web of variables and trigger points. — Tim Greiving, latimes.com, "Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge needed a musical score. Cue John ‘Obi-wan’ Williams," 12 June 2019 Zechiedrich theorizes these bubbles might provide trigger points for replication or gene expression. — Quanta Magazine, "How Strange Twists in DNA Orchestrate Life," 5 Jan. 2016 With tension-type headaches, some people also experience increased muscle tension, so releasing the trigger points could help, Dr. Newman says. — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, "12 Ways to Get Rid of a Headache Without Medicine," 23 May 2019 Vallée uses fragments of memories, dreamlike sequences, and trigger points to hint at her history, flashing back and forth through time. — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, "The Twisted, Enthralling Rot of Sharp Objects," 7 July 2018 That will happen when linear or rotational accelerations exceed a gravitational force of 85, a trigger point Tozuda says on its website was determined using data from a study by the Department of Orthopedics at Brown University. — Diane Mastrull, Philly.com, "Hey Philly area start-ups, click here if you have what it takes to win our Stellar StartUps contest," 31 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'trigger point.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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