Kronos can refer to: *

Cronus In Ancient Greek religion and mythology, Cronus, Cronos, or Kronos ( or , from el, Κρόνος, ''Krónos'') was the leader and youngest of the first generation of Titans, the divine descendants of the primordial Gaia (Mother Earth) and ...

, 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 ''Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter'' is a 1974 British swashbuckling action horror film, written and directed by Brian Clemens, produced by Clemens and Albert Fennell for Hammer Film Productions, and starring Horst Janson, John Carson, Shane ...

'', a 1974 horror film *

Kronos (Highlander) This is a list of characters from the ''Highlander (franchise), Highlander'' franchise. Major characters Major characters appear in more than one movie or series. Works are presented in chronological order. Films ''Highlander'' (1986) ' ...

, 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 Klingons ( ; Klingon: ''tlhIngan'' ) are a fictional species in the science fiction franchise '' Star Trek''. Developed by screenwriter Gene L. Coon in 1967 for the original ''Star Trek'' (''TOS'') series, Klingons were swarthy humanoids ...

, 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 The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney (), is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was originally founded on October ...

/ Pixar

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The Incredibles ''The Incredibles'' is a 2004 American computer-animated superhero film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Written and directed by Brad Bird, it stars the voices of Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Sarah V ...

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 ''Lone Echo'' is a 2017 virtual reality adventure game developed by Ready At Dawn, and published by Oculus Studios. Set aboard a space station orbiting Saturn, it allows players to move in zero-gravity by grabbing and pushing off of the environme ...

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 Kronos Incorporated was an American multinational workforce management and human capital management cloud provider headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts, United States, which employed more than 6,000 people worldwide. In February 2020, the compa ...

, a workforce management software and hardware company * Khronos Group, an American non-profit member-funded industry consortium maintaining the OpenGL standard *

Kronos Foods Kronos Foods, Inc., is a Chicago-based company which is a foodservice manufacturer of Mediterranean food in the United States and the largest manufacturer of gyros in the world. Kronos Foods is known for being one of the first to produce, standardi ...

, a manufacturer of gyros * , a chemical company and producer of titanium dioxide based in Dallas * Kronos Racing, a Belgian rally team

Science and technology

Computing

Kronos (computer) Kronos is a series of 32-bit computing, 32-bit processor equipped printed circuit board systems, and the workstations based thereon, of a proprietary hardware architecture developed in the mid-1980s in Akademgorodok, a research city in Siberia, ...

, 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