out of phase
• being or happening out of synchrony or harmony.
• "database operations tend to be out of phase with user interactions"
• having or in a different phase or stage of variation.
• "if the waves are exactly out of phase, the peak of one falls into the trough of another"
in phase
• being or happening in synchrony or harmony.
• "the cabling work should be carried out in phase with the building work"
• having or in the same phase or stage of variation.
• "the light waves were in phase as they came through the slits"
