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disfàk.

to make a electric potential, voltage or magnetic current unit, a potential/current of 64.34 millivolts (see appendix, Units of measurement)

Etymology

shortened form, academic loan of
Koi δια‑σφάξ ‘gorge’, lit. ‘hewn through’, compound of
  Koi σφάζω ‘slaughter, kill’, of unknown origin
 —and—
  Koi δια‑ ‘through, across, by, over’
SHell *dwisa‑, prefix derivation of
  SHell *dwis ‘twice’
PIE *du̯is, multiplicative of
  PIE *du̯óh₁ ‘two’

Most electric units use the electricity is water metaphor, which relates voltage to an altitude difference.