Kronos

Kronos can refer to:

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

In business

  • Kronos Foods, the world's largest manufacturer of gyros

In computing

  • CDC Kronos, an operating system with time-sharing capabilities, written by the Control Data Corporation in the 1970s
  • Kronos (computer), a secret 32-bit graphical workstation developed in the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s.
  • Kronos Incorporated, a workforce management software and hardware company

In technology

  • Korg Kronos, a music workstation synthesizer

In entertainment

  • Kronos (band), a brutal death metal band from France
  • Kronos (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Universe
  • Kronos Quartet, a string quartet founded by violinist David Harrington in 1973

In film and television

  • Kronos (film), a 1957 science fiction film
  • Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter, a 1974 horror film
  • Kronos (Highlander), a fictional character from Highlander: The Series, portrayed by actor Valentine Pelka
  • In the Doctor Who serial, The Time Monster, a creature from outside time that feeds on time itself
  • In The Incredibles, the plot concocted by Syndrome, the supervillain of the film
  • In the Star Trek universe, the Anglicized spelling of Qo'noS, the Klingon homeworld

In science

  • Kronos: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Synthesis, published between 1975-1988
  • Kronos (spacecraft) A proposed space mission to Saturn

In video games

  • Kronos Digital Entertainment, a video game developer
  • In Age of Mythology: The Titans, a character with the ability to time-shift buildings
  • In God of War (video game), the last Titan and the cruel father of Zeus
  • The name of a character in The Last Express, played by Mujahid Abdul-Rashid
  • In the video game Xena: Warrior Princess (video game), a level of the game.