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 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 Pixar Animation Studios (commonly known as Pixar () and stylized as P I X A R) is an American computer animation studio known for its critically and commercially successful computer animated feature films. It is based in Emeryville, Californ ...

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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, Sa ...

Video games

*In '' Age of Mythology: The Titans'', a character with the ability to time-shift buildings *In

Eve Online ''Eve Online'' (stylised ''EVE Online'') is a space-based, persistent world massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed and published by CCP Games. Players of ''Eve Online'' can participate in a number of in-game professi ...

, 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) Kronos was a death metal band from France. Their name is a reference to the Titans, titan Cronus, the father of Zeus in greek mythology. Lyrical subjects The lyrics of their songs are mainly about myths, legends and historical subjects from th ...

, a death metal band from France *

Kronos Quartet The Kronos Quartet is an American string quartet based in San Francisco. It has been in existence with a rotating membership of musicians for almost 50 years. The quartet covers a very broad range of musical genres, including contemporary class ...

, a string quartet founded by violinist David Harrington in 1973

Businesses and organizations

Kronos Digital Entertainment Kronos Digital Entertainment was an American computer animation and video game developer founded by Stan Liu in 1992. They first began to develop original properties, beginning with their visually appealing early 3D fighting game A fighting ...

, a video game developer * Kronos Incorporated, a workforce management software and hardware company *

Khronos Group The Khronos Group, Inc. is an open, non-profit, member-driven consortium of 170 organizations developing, publishing and maintaining royalty-free interoperability standards for 3D graphics, virtual reality, augmented reality, parallel computat ...

, an American non-profit member-funded industry consortium maintaining the OpenGL standard * Kronos Foods, 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 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, by the Academy o ...

, 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 The Kronos is a music workstation manufactured by Korg that combines nine different synthesizer sound engines with a sequencer, digital recorder, effects, a color touchscreen display and a keyboard. Korg's latest flagship synthesizer series a ...

, a music workstation synthesizer

Other uses

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