dynamic link

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dynamic link - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  dynamic link
  
     <compiler> A pointer from an activation record to the
     activation record for the scope from which the current
     scope was called at run time.  This is used in a statically scoped
      language to restore the environment pointer on exit
     from a scope.  To access a non-local variable in a
     dynamically scoped language, dynamic links are followed
     until a binding for the given variable name is found.
  
     (1995-03-07)