Ingot vs Nugget - What's the difference?
ingot | nugget |
A solid block of more or less pure metal, often but not necessarily bricklike in shape and trapezoidal in cross-section, the result of pouring out and cooling molten metal, often immediately after smelting from raw ore or alloying from constituents.
(countable) A small, compact chunk or clump.
(countable) A tidbit of something valuable.
(uncountable) A type of boot polish.
(countable) A bud from the Cannabis sativa plant.
(countable, slang) An inexperienced, newly trained fighter pilot.
* 2009 , Nick Scipio,
(comptheory) A partial description gleaned from data mining.
* 2002 , Data Mining: A Heuristic Approach (page 93)
As nouns the difference between ingot and nugget
is that ingot is a solid block of more or less pure metal, often but not necessarily bricklike in shape and trapezoidal in cross-section, the result of pouring out and cooling molten metal, often immediately after smelting from raw ore or alloying from constituents while nugget is a small, compact chunk or clump.ingot
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(en noun)Anagrams
* ----nugget
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- a gold nugget
- a nugget of wisdom
Nereids:
- Jack stifled a smirk at the ensign's expressionless non-reaction. He'd been a nugget himself once, the new guy fresh from training.
- We have previously said that the heuristic algorithms produce good nuggets for most classes and most ? values