When a note is played on a MIDI instrument, it generates a digital signal that can be used to trigger a note on another instrument.

When the magneto is supposed to fire, the flyweights are released by the action of the body contacting the trigger ramp.

When the fear or aggression response is initiated, the amygdala may trigger the release of hormones into the body to put the human body into an " alert " state, in which they are ready to move, run, fight, etc.

When either source or problem is known, the events that a source may trigger or the events that can lead to a problem can be investigated.

When ultraviolet radiation is not absorbed by the atmosphere or other protective coating, it can cause damage to the skin known as sunburn or trigger an adaptive change in human skin pigmentation.

When a burst trigger is recorded, the instrument switches to record high resolution data, recording it to a 32-kbit memory for a slow telemetry read out.

When the trigger is activated, the tubule shaft of the cnidocyst is ejected and in the case of the penetrant nematocyst, the forcefully ejected tubule penetrates the target organism.

When the clear tape reaches one of these, enough light will pass through the tape to the photodiode to trigger the stop function ; in more sophisticated machines it will start rewinding the cassette when the trailing end is detected.

When ultraviolet rays penetrate the skin and damage DNA, thymidine dinucleotide ( pTpT ) fragments from damaged DNA will trigger melanogenesis and cause the melanocyte to produce melanosomes, which are then transferred by dendrite to the top layer of keratinocytes.

When Nikki Wood's son Robin tries to kill Spike, he unwittingly frees Spike from his hypnotic trigger: the song " Early One Morning ", a favorite of his mother, which evokes Spike's traumatic memories of his mother's abusive behavior toward him after she turned ; after Spike is able to address these issues, he realizes his mother had always loved him, knowledge which frees him from the First's control.

When the player pulls the trigger, the computer ( often assisted by the display circuitry ) times how long it takes the electron beam to excite the phosphor at the location at which the gun is pointed.

When the trigger is pressed, the gun sends the intensity of the IR beam it detects.

When the user pulls the trigger the screen is replaced for a split-second with a seemingly random display of black and white pixels, or groups of pixels ( blocks ).

When the Golden Argosy crew is made aware of Guerrero's presence and intentions, Captain Vernon Demerest ( Dean Martin ), acting as a check pilot to evaluate Captain Anson Harris ( Barry Nelson ), goes back into the passenger cabin and tries to persuade Guerrero not to trigger the bomb.

When oppositional forces reach critical mass, countercultures can trigger dramatic cultural changes.

When the cam raises the follower, the blue rod is depressed against the spring, enabling the yellow trigger plate to be reached when the purple firing button is pressed.

When a trigger was pulled, the lever would rotate and allowed the match to come in contact with the touch hole, discharging the weapon.

When an input voltage is expected to vary in an analogue way, but sharp thresholds are required for later digital processing, the Schmitt trigger circuit uses positive feedback to ensure that if the input voltage creeps gently above the threshold, the output is forced smartly and rapidly from one logic state to the other.

When the pistol is used the trigger is held allowing energy to build up within the object and once the trigger is released the energy within the object causes it to explode.

When stock of a particular component is depleted by the quantity assigned on kanban card, a " kanban trigger " is created ( which may be manual or automatic ), a purchase order is released with predefined quantity for the vendor defined on the card, and the vendor is expected to dispatch material within lead time.

When the condition causes the finger to " stick " in a flexed position, this is called " stenosing " tenosynovitis, commonly known as " trigger Finger ".

When added to credit card bills or check card statements, it may also cause an overlimit or NSF fee, creating an endless and inescapable cycle of fees that trigger other fees for people aleady stretched to their financial limit.

When the trigger on the Zapper is pressed, the game causes the entire screen to become black for one frame.

When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.

When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.

When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.

When she appeared at the store to help out for a few hours even my looking at her was surreptitious lest my Uncle notice it.

When our eyes met the air was filled with an unuttered message of `` Me, too ''.

`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.

When they got to Shillong, in Assam, he was happy.

`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.

When he awoke in the mornings, she was in his mind and he could hardly wait to get to school to be near her in the flesh.

When he came back to the schoolhouse, his mind was made up.

When he finally left the sinister mansion on Perdido Street, he was carried out in a coroner's basket.

When he was eight he began violin lessons.

When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.

When he was stripped, deloused and numbered by his guards, his much-thumbed sketchbook was seized and thrown on a pile of prisoners' goods to be confiscated.

When her right hand was incapacitated by the rheumatism, Sadie learned to write with her left hand.

When Harold Arlen returned to California in the winter of 1944, it was to take up again a collaboration with Johnny Mercer, begun some years before.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.