🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

危险触发器

Pronunciation / Transliteration: wēi xiǎn chǔ fā qì

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Hazard trigger/ˈhæz.ərd ˈtrɪɡ.ər/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"恶劣天气是引发事故的危险触发器。"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An event, condition, or action that directly initiates or activates a specific danger, emergency, or hazardous situation.

    "Heavy rainfall acted as a hazard trigger for the severe mudslide along the mountain pass."
  2. 2

    A designated threshold or mechanism in safety systems that detects conditions leading to an operational hazard.

    "The automated monitor was calibrated to act as a hazard trigger when pressure exceeded normal limits."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines hazard, derived from the Old Spanish 'azar' meaning an unfortunate roll of dice (ultimately from Arabic 'al-zahr'), and trigger, from the Middle Dutch 'trecker' or 'trekken' meaning to pull. Together, the compound phrase evolved in modern technical, safety, and environmental risk assessment contexts to describe specific events or conditions that initiate a danger.

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