false colour

British  

noun

1. colour used in a computer or photographic display to help in interpreting the image, as in the use of red to show high temperatures and blue to show low temperatures in an infrared image converter

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false colour

This lends a false colour to the picture, which the general reader is pretty sure to make still falser.

From The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest by John Fiske

"And suppose you see it in a false colour?"

From The Good Time Coming by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

False hair, false colour, false calves, false muscles—they had become different beings.

From Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

In consequence of all this, says Mr. Gairdner, Foxe has given a false colour to the history of the times, and especially to the sentiments and motives of the persecutors.

From Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries by J. M. (Jean Mary) Stone

Not in the parti-coloured, over-dressed creature—the thing of shreds and patches—with false hair, false colour, false eyebrows, false everything.

From Thrift by Samuel Smiles