SEC Section table for the section feature class in a coverage. The SEC holds attributes about sections. In addition to user-defined attributes, the SEC contains information on both the route number and arc number to which the section belongs, the starting and ending positions expressed as percentages of the arc length, starting and ending positions expressed as measures along the route, an internal sequence number and a section feature identifier. See also feature attribute table . They form the infrastructure of route-systems much like arcs form the infrastructure of polygons.
Sections are the arcs, or portions of arcs, used to define each route.
See also SEC . A line on a surface defining the position of a profile . A coverage whose area overlaps that of a map library. It identifies the area to extract data from, or insert data into, a map library. That is, although any user can run the process, the process can then execute operations which require root privileges.