Horray Jebediah Springfield!

News

Nature 448, 632 (9 August 2007) | doi:10.1038/448632a; Published online 8 August 2007

Sidelines

Wordwatch

Embiggen

In a case of theoretical physics imitating art, ‘embiggen’, first coined by The Simpsons character Jebediah Springfield, has now been used in a paper on string theory by Stanford University’s Shamit Kachru. In case you need a definition, it means ‘to grow or expand’. Obviously.