Telos () refers to the philosophical concept of purpose. Telos may also refer to:

Companies

  • Telos (company), a defense contractor and software business in Ashburn, Virginia
  • The Telos Alliance, a manufacturer of equipment for broadcasting stations
  • Telos Publishing, a publishing company that deals primarily in horror/fantasy and unofficial program guides

Computer science

  • TELOS, acronym for The EuLisp Object System
  • Telos, name of a knowledge representation language used in ConceptBase

In fiction

  • Telos (Doctor Who), a planet in the television series Doctor Who
  • T-elos, an antagonist in the video game series Xenosaga
  • Telos is a planet and a character in the DC Comics series Convergence (comics)
  • Telos, a boss monster in the MMORPG RuneScape
  • A planet in Star Wars appearing in the video game Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords and the novel The Day of Reckoning

Music

  • Telos (Forevermore album), 2014
  • Telos (Zedd album), 2024
  • "Telos", a song by Between the Buried and Me from the album The Parallax II: Future Sequence

Other uses

  • Telos Lake, in Maine
  • Tilos (ancient Greek: Telos), a Greek island in the Dodecanese
  • Telos (journal), a journal of politics, philosophy, and critical theory, and its accompanying publishing company, Telos Press
  • TELOS (project management), an acronym used in Project Management regarding feasibility studies

See also

  • Tellos, a fantasy comic book series
  • Tellos Agras, the nom de guerre of Greek officer Sarantis-Tellos Agapinos (c. 1880–1907)
  • Telo (disambiguation)