"at one's fingertips" meaning in English

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Prepositional phrase

Audio: en-au-at one's fingertips.ogg Forms: at one’s fingertips [canonical], at one's finger tips [alternative]
Head templates: {{head|en|prepositional phrase|head=at one’s fingertips}} at one’s fingertips, {{en-prep phrase|at one’s fingertips}} at one’s fingertips
  1. (idiomatic) Readily available. Tags: idiomatic Synonyms: at one's fingers' ends, for more, see at hand § Synonyms Translations (readily available): paraat (Dutch), binnen handbereik (Dutch), voor het grijpen (Dutch), hyppysissään (Finnish), à portée de main (French), sous la main (French), auf der Fingerspitze (German), w małym palcu (Polish), отскакивать от зубов (otskakivatʹ ot zubov) (english: bounce frome one's teeth) (Russian), знать на ять (znatʹ na jatʹ) (english: know to yat'(old letter)) (Russian), знать на зубок (znatʹ na zubok) (english: know on one's tooth) (Russian), у малом прсту (u malom prstu) (Serbo-Croatian)
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    },
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