static link

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

  static link
  
     <compiler> (Or "access link" or "environment link") A pointer
     from an activation record to the activation record for the
     textually enclosing scope.  A static link is only required
     in a statically (lexically) scoped language.
  
     The number of static links to follow may be determined
     statically (at compile time).  It is simply the difference in
     lexical nesting depth between the declaration and the
     reference.
  
     See also display.
  
     (1995-03-07)