"false colour" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: false colours [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} false colour (plural false colours)
  1. (of an image; especially attributively) Having colours that are different from those of reality, especially such that the colours used correspond to some physical significance (e.g. representing temperature, species of microbe, or other meaning). Wikipedia link: false-color Tags: attributive, especially Synonyms: false color, false-color, false-colour Related terms: colour code
    Sense id: en-false_colour-en-noun-GHjjSHcm Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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