Two alternatives may then occur: (1) the ball may switch to a new synchronized mode in which it bounces so much higher that it returns only every two, three, or more cycles, or (2) it may become unsynchronized and return at irregular, apparently random, intervals.
Hart Crane leaped into the Gulf of Mexico, but also, in some way, he leaped into the Hudson, behind a playground in Battery Park City, where at dawn two girls were swinging in parallel but unsynchronized swings.
It was Ernesto, jumping around in spasms of unsynchronized, discombobulated movement.
"Nothing III," a 2012 solo Ms. Zuk created with Ohad Fishof that was danced by Cheryl Rosario, had mashed up Latin hips, hands used as goggles and intentionally unsynchronized lip-syncing.
It feels absurdly unsynchronized, and yet it is synchronicity itself.
In daily use, Mr. Krefetz said, the unsynchronized first gear of early E-Type transmissions can be challenging.
It takes a fine choreography of clutch, shifter and accelerator to shift the 4-speed manual transmission without grinding its unsynchronized gears.
The band's most mobile musicians, the singer Thom Yorke of Radiohead and the bassist Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, had already begun what would be a full set of nearly nonstop, merrily unsynchronized dance moves: Mr. Yorke with jittery head, shoulders, hands and feet, and Flea with rubbery long legs and limber hips.
In "Animals" unsynchronized rhythmic pulses on string instruments and percussion bubble behind a prepared piano's metallic clangor.
Driving Dave Whitman's '66, I held a pizza-size steering wheel with a breadstick-thin rim and double-clutched the unsynchronized transmission, a task more difficult than, say, limiting my Twitter messages to 140 characters.
He once wrote that the two were "victims of unsynchronized passion".
