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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A color arbitrarily assigned to a particular feature or aspect of a displayed digital image, as one from a camera or a CT scanner, that is used to distinguish the feature from other details in the image. False colors are used to graphically represent such phenomena as temperature, density, altitude, and brightness.
- noun Such colors used in a displayed image.
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