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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Example Sentences

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 Fiske, John

It is this passion for veracity unknown among other peoples—is even Washington's story told without gloss?—that gives false colour to the legend of Israel's ancient savagery.

From Chosen Peoples Being the First "Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture" delivered before the Jewish Historical Society at University College on Easter-Passover Sunday, 1918/5678 by Zangwill, Israel

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

From Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles

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 Smiles, Samuel

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

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