Nugget vs Nuggets - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between nugget and nuggets

is that nugget is a small, compact chunk or clump while nuggets is plural of lang=en.

(countable) A small, compact chunk or clump.

a gold nugget

(countable) A tidbit of something valuable.

a nugget of wisdom

(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, 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.

(comptheory) A partial description gleaned from data mining.

* 2002 , Data Mining: A Heuristic Approach (page 93)

We have previously said that the heuristic algorithms produce good nuggets for most classes and most ? values