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From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium

Residue can mean more than one thing.

• For the complex mathematical analysis, see residue (mathematics)
• In the case where material residue is the result of a product or manufacture, see residue (material)
• Residue is another name for an amino acid in a protein. One might say that "residue 39 is a cysteine".