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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 metaphor, which relates voltage to an altitude difference.