Kronos can refer to: *

Cronus In ancient Greek religion and Greek mythology, mythology, Cronus, Cronos, or Kronos ( or ; ) was the leader and youngest of the Titans, the children of Gaia (Earth) and Uranus (mythology), Uranus (Sky). He overthrew his father and ruled dur ...

, 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 ''The Time Monster'' is the fifth and final serial of the Doctor Who (season 9), ninth season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in six weekly parts on BBC One, BBC1 from 20 May to 24 June 1 ...

'', 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 humanoid species of aliens in the science fiction franchise ''Star Trek''. Developed by screenwriter Gene L. Coon in 1967 for the original ''Star Trek'' (''TOS'') series, Klingons were 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 referred to as simply Disney, is an American multinational mass media and entertainment industry, entertainment conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios (Burbank), Walt Di ...

Pixar Pixar (), doing business as Pixar Animation Studios, is an American animation studio based in Emeryville, California, known for its critically and commercially successful computer-animated feature films. Pixar is a subsidiary of Walt Disney ...

superhero A superhero or superheroine is a fictional character who typically possesses ''superpowers'' or abilities beyond those of ordinary people, is frequently costumed concealing their identity, and fits the role of the hero, typically using their ...

animated Animation is a filmmaking technique whereby image, still images are manipulated to create Motion picture, moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on cel, transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and e ...

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The Incredibles ''The Incredibles'' is a 2004 American animated superhero film written and directed by Brad Bird. Produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures, the film stars the voices of Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Sarah Vowell, Spencer ...

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 environm ...

Other media

* Kronos (band), 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 50 years. The quartet covers a very broad range of musical genres, including contemporary classical musi ...

, a string quartet founded by violinist David Harrington in 1973

Businesses and organizations

Kronos Digital Entertainment Kronos Digital Entertainment was an American video game developer, founded by Stan Liu in 1992. It developed original properties, beginning with the visually appealing early 3D graphics, 3D fighting games ''Criticom'', ''Dark Rift'' and ''Cardin ...

, 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 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 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, standard ...

, a manufacturer of gyros * , a chemical company and producer of titanium dioxide based in Dallas *

Kronos Racing Kronos Racing is a Belgian auto racing and rally team. History Kronos Racing was set up in 1994, and ran circuit racing and rallying programmes on behalf of Peugeot Belgium/Luxembourg. The team's Peugeot 306 GTIs won the Spa 24 Hours in 1999 ...

, 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) Kronos was a type of banking Windows malware first reported in 2014. History It was developed as a followup to the UPAS Kit which has been released in 2012. It was sold for $7,000. Similar to Zeus, it was focused on stealing banking login credent ...

, banking malware first reported in 2014 *

CDC Kronos Kronos is an operating system with time-sharing capabilities, written by Control Data Corporation in 1971. Kronos ran on the 60-bit CDC 6000 series mainframe computers and their successors. CDC replaced Kronos with the NOS operating system in ...

, an operating system with time-sharing capabilities, written by the Control Data Corporation in the 1970s

Other uses in science and technology

Kronos (spacecraft) ''Kronos'' is a concept mission to Saturn. It is aimed at detailed study of the chemical composition of Saturn's atmosphere, gravity and magnetic fields. The proposal consists of the solar powered carrier spacecraft, two atmospheric probes and ( ...

, a proposed space mission to Saturn *

Kronos (star) HD 240429 (nicknamed Krios) and HD 240430 (Kronos) is a wide binary star system in the constellation of Cassiopeia. Both components of the system are yellow G-type main-sequence stars. HD 240430 is a Sun-like star in appearance, but it seem ...

, 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 at ...

, a music workstation synthesizer

Other uses

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