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Kronos can refer to:

  • Cronus, a Titan, the father of Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, Demeter, and Hera


Arts and entertainment

Film and television

  • Kronos (film), a 1957 science fiction film
  • Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter, a 1974 horror film
  • Kronos (Highlander), a fictional character
  • In the Doctor Who serial, The Time Monster, a creature from outside time that feeds on time itself
  • In the Star Trek universe, another spelling of Qo'noS, the Klingon home world
  • In Singularity, an artificial intelligence designed to rid the earth of the plague of humanity in order to save the planet.
  • Operation Kronos, a fictional project in the 2004 Disney/Pixar superhero animated film The Incredibles

Video games

  • Battle Worlds: Kronos, a 2013 video game
  • In Age of Mythology: The Titans, a character with the ability to time-shift buildings
  • In Eve Online, a Marauder Class battleship based on a Gallente Federation Megathron hull
  • Kronos II, an Orbital Mining Facility on the rings of Saturn in 2126 in Lone Echo

Other media

  • Kronos (band), a death metal band from France
  • Kronos Quartet, a string quartet founded by violinist David Harrington in 1973

Businesses and organizations

  • Kronos Digital Entertainment, a video game developer
  • Kronos Incorporated, a workforce management software and hardware company
  • Khronos Group, an American non-profit member-funded industry consortium maintaining the OpenGL standard
  • Kronos Foods, a manufacturer of gyros
  • Kronos International [de], a chemical company and producer of titanium dioxide based in Dallas
  • Kronos Racing, a Belgian rally team

Science and technology

Computing

  • Kronos (computer), a 32-bit graphical workstation developed in the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s
  • Kronos (malware), banking malware first reported in 2014
  • CDC Kronos, an operating system with time-sharing capabilities, written by the Control Data Corporation in the 1970s

Other uses in science and technology

  • Kronos (spacecraft), a proposed space mission to Saturn
  • Kronos (star), a star that is in a wide binary system with Krios, and which has eaten some terrestrial planets
  • Korg Kronos, a music workstation synthesizer

Other uses

  • Kronos: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Synthesis, published between 1975 and 1988

See also

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