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false colour
noun
Used attributively to describe an image having colours that are different from reality, especially one in which the colours used have a physical signficance (e.g. representing temperature etc.)
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Left: in false colour scale.
False colour shows silica (upper) and silicon (lower).
Spatial interpretation of the results was possible using a Landsat TM image (False Colour Composite – FCC).
Red, Tβ-syn cells; Grey (false colour), GFP- or β-synuclein-expressing neurons.
Red, Tβ-syn cells; grey (false colour), neurons overexpressing β- or γ-synuclein.
(c) False colour ("Green fire blue" colour in ImageJ) CARS image mapping intracellular pheomelanin distribution.
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This false-colour image shows Brussels, the capital of Belgium.
False-colour picture of a stellar formation region in the Orion Nebula (M42).
(f) False-colour overlaid image of (d) in green and (e) in red.
This false-colour image from the Sentinel-2A showslite shows agricultural structures near Tubarjal, Saudi Arabia.
The yellow lines and dots in this false-colour image are sand dunes.
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