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false color
noun
- photography using infrared-sensitive film that produces images in which heat-emitting areas or objects appear red.
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- false-color adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of false color1
First recorded in 1965–70
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Example Sentences
But this contentment was too constant, too uniform, like false color on a woman's cheek.
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"Unless mauve be a false color," I interposed wittily, and then we both laughed and good temper was restored.
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This mine also produces a large number of “false color” stones which change color in different lights.
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