"false colour" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "text": "A false-colour image from a microscope helps highlight the variety of microbial species present in a single sample of soil.",
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        },
        {
          "text": "The temperature gradient is shown here in false colour for convenience.",
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        "Having colours that are different from those of reality, especially such that the colours used correspond to some physical or spectral significance (e.g. representing temperature, wavelength, species of microbe, or other meaning)."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of an image; especially attributively) Having colours that are different from those of reality, especially such that the colours used correspond to some physical or spectral significance (e.g. representing temperature, wavelength, species of microbe, or other meaning)."
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        "of an image"
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "colour code"
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        {
          "word": "false color"
        },
        {
          "word": "false-color"
        },
        {
          "word": "false-colour"
        },
        {
          "word": "false colouring"
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        "attributive",
        "especially"
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      "wikipedia": [
        "false-color"
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  "word": "false colour"
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      "word": "colour code"
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          "text": "A false-colour image from a microscope helps highlight the variety of microbial species present in a single sample of soil.",
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        },
        {
          "text": "The temperature gradient is shown here in false colour for convenience.",
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        "Having colours that are different from those of reality, especially such that the colours used correspond to some physical or spectral significance (e.g. representing temperature, wavelength, species of microbe, or other meaning)."
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        "(of an image; especially attributively) Having colours that are different from those of reality, especially such that the colours used correspond to some physical or spectral significance (e.g. representing temperature, wavelength, species of microbe, or other meaning)."
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    {
      "word": "false-color"
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    {
      "word": "false-colour"
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    {
      "word": "false colouring"
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  "word": "false colour"
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