Chrono may refer to:
Prefix
''chrono-'' a Greek combining form relating to time
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chronometry
Chronometry (from Ancient Greek, Greek χρόνος ''chronos'', "time" and μέτρον ''metron'', "measure") is the science of the measurement of time, or timekeeping. Chronometry provides a standard of measurement for time, and therefore serv ...
, science of the measurement of time
*"chrono", colloquialism for
chronograph
A chronograph is a specific type of watch that is used as a stopwatch combined with a display watch. A basic chronograph has an independent sweep second hand and a minute sub-dial; it can be started, stopped, and returned to zero by successive ...
in watch and clock collectors' language
Games
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''Chrono'' (series), a Japanese video game series, which includes:
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Chrono Trigger
is a 1995 role-playing video game developed and published by Square. It was originally released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System as the first game in the ''Chrono'' series. The game's development team included three designers th ...
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Radical Dreamers
''Radical Dreamers'' is a 1996 text-based visual novel adventure video game developed and published by Square for the Satellaview, a satellite peripheral for the Super Famicom. It forms part of the ''Chrono'' series, acting as a side story to ...
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Chrono Cross
is a 1999 role-playing video game developed and published by Square for the PlayStation video game console. It is set in the same world as ''Chrono Trigger'', which was released in 1995 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. ''Chrono C ...
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Crono (''Chrono Trigger''), the main character in ''Chrono Trigger''
Books
*Chrono, a character in the Kurt Vonnegut novel ''
The Sirens of Titan
''The Sirens of Titan'' is a comic science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., first published in 1959. His second novel, it involves issues of free will, omniscience, and the overall purpose of human history. Much of the story revolves around ...
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*Chrono, the title character from the manga and anime ''
Chrono Crusade
''Chrono Crusade'', originally known in Japan as , due to a typo, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Daisuke Moriyama. It was originally published by Kadokawa Shoten in ''Comic Dragon'', then a special issue of the ''Drago ...
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*Chrono Harlaown, from
list of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha characters
The following list introduces the characters of the ''Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (series), Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha'' in Main and Movie Timeline.
Protagonists Nanoha Series
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: The main protagonist of the series, Nanoha is an ordinary ...
*Chrono Press, one of myriad imprints of the German group
OmniScriptum
Omniscriptum Publishing Group, formerly known as VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, is a German publishing group headquartered in Riga, Latvia. Founded in 2002 in Düsseldorf, its book production is based on print-to-order technology.
The company publi ...
devoted to the reproduction of Wikipedia content
Music
*''Chrono'', a 2011 EP by
Paul Kalkbrenner
Paul Kalkbrenner () (born 11 June 1977) is a German musician, producer of electronic music and actor. Because he breaks down his tracks into elements that are reassembled onstage, Kalkbrenner is considered a live act, as opposed to a DJ. He is ...
*"Chrono", a song by The Ghost Inside from the 2010 album ''
Returners''
*"Chrono", a song by Kraftwerk from the 2003 album ''
Tour de France Soundtracks
''Tour de France Soundtracks'' (renamed to ''Tour de France'' for its remastered release) is the eleventh studio album by German electronic music band Kraftwerk. It was first released on 4 August 2003, through Kling Klang and EMI in Europe and A ...
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See also
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Chronos
Chronos (; grc-gre, Χρόνος, , "time"), also spelled Khronos or Chronus, is a personification of time in pre-Socratic philosophy and later literature.
Chronos is frequently confused with, or perhaps consciously identified with, the Tit ...
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Chronos (disambiguation) Chronos may refer to:
*Chronos, or ''Chronus'', the Greek personification of time
*ancient name of the Pregolya River
*Chronos (comics), the various characters from comic books that have used this name
* ''Chronos'' (film), a 1985 IMAX film by Ron F ...
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