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On the off chance that you're not taking the piss....
Trigger is from event-driven programming. You've had them in RDBMS since back in the 90s. Also in many many languages.
Interface is an abstract contract for the API of a component. Mostly in OO so far as I know. It allows multiple implementations to implement the same interface (= polymorphism) without having to extend the same base type/component.
Reflection is being able to inspect the structure/API of a component.