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Which one is correct or more correct?

  1. These meetings get iterated every three weeks.
  2. These meetings get iterated over every three weeks.

Edit: We are talking about a set of meetings (3-4 meetings) And they occur in pattern. This pattern occurs every 3 weeks.

More context? Scrum meetings:

  1. Sprint planning meeting(once in 3 weeks)
  2. Daily standup(daily)
  3. Sprint Review Meeting(once in 3 weeks)
  4. Sprint Retro(once in 3 weeks)
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    To iterate is to repeat; in data processing or some branches of mathematics, to iterate over a range of things is to repeatedly do something, in turn, to those things. Only (1) has the meaning 'these meetings happen every three weeks', which is, in fact, a better way of expressing it.
    – Michael Harvey
    Commented Dec 29, 2020 at 9:32
  • Yeah, saying the meetings "iterate" is not idiomatic in the US. "Repeat" would be the normal term.
    – Hot Licks
    Commented Dec 29, 2020 at 13:11

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The meetings may happen, occur, come up, or are scheduled as often as you please.

An iteration is more than a repeat—it is one round of cycle. You could call one pushup in a set of 15 an iteration.

While #2 is worse (meetings get iterated over every three weeks), the meetings in #1 may occur every three weeks, but with different content, not the very same content. So they don't iterate. Only in the film Ground Hog's Day would they iterate. Again.

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  • I have edited the questions. meeting = 3-4 meeting sets. These meetings get repeated. Each meeting has a different purpose. Would this affect your answer?
    – Blue Clouds
    Commented Dec 30, 2020 at 7:52

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